{"id":4049,"date":"2006-10-03T15:01:13","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T20:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2006\/10\/03\/advice-for-boys\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T21:43:37","slug":"advice-for-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2006\/10\/03\/advice-for-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I quoted the illustrious Mr. Lileks, and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever just stolen an image from him (although I came close with the Chastening Perry Head), but this was too good to pass up. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/06\/1006\/100306.html\">today&#8217;s Bleat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/movies\/noire.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Audrey Totter from 'Lady in the Lake'\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"6\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote\"><em>If any of you have young sons, show them the picture above, and stress the importance of not making women look at you like that. No good ever comes of it.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>I would heartily second Mr. Lileks&#8217;s suggestion, although there&#8217;s <a title=\"Link to photo of Gwynne holding an AK-47 (The Shallow End)\" href=\"http:\/\/the-shallow-end.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/random-saturday.html\">at least one additional womanly look<\/a> that should give even the most seasoned veteran of the male gender pause for thought. When confronted by a smiling chick wearing Birkenstocks and holding a loaded AK-47, one should always err on the side of gushing appeasement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 84 in the Field Guide for Male Survival: Interpreting Subtle Signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}