{"id":167,"date":"2016-02-10T04:54:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T04:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:12:01","slug":"the-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"The Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We moved down here from way up north<br \/>\nThe boy next door to us was luscious<br \/>\nHe asked me to go on a date<br \/>\nHe asked me to go a gigging<br \/>\nI was so thrilled I couldn\u2019t wait<\/p>\n<p>Spent two hours on my hair<br \/>\nMake-up put with care<br \/>\nNails done with little stars on<br \/>\nWore my Ralph Lauren jeans<br \/>\nNew shirt, shoes with special laces<\/p>\n<p>He picked me up in a 4-wheeler at eight<br \/>\nI did think that was a bit strange<br \/>\nWe drove through the muddy fields<br \/>\nComing at last to a couple of ponds<br \/>\nHe hands me a stick with prongs<br \/>\nAnd says, \u201ccome on come on<br \/>\nThis is gonna be fun<br \/>\nWe are going to get dirty\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The moral of my story:  He said, \u201cWe were gonna get dirty\u201d<br \/>\nI did not know he meant literally<\/p>\n<p>Southern boys sure know how to make a good impression on their first date<br \/>\nAnd they really know how to treat a Yankee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We moved down here from way up north The boy next door to us was luscious He asked me to go on a date He asked me to go a gigging I was so thrilled I couldn\u2019t wait Spent two hours on my hair Make-up put with care Nails done with little stars on Wore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/catylou.com\/?p=167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Date<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catylou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}