{"id":193,"date":"2004-07-31T20:49:40","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T02:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2004-07-31T20:49:40","modified_gmt":"2004-08-01T02:49:40","slug":"peer-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Peer Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a major dilemma.\u00c2\u00a0 Ashley is planning this dinner and strip bar extravaganza for Erin and Jason before the their wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The problem: Brian just absolutely hates strip bars.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured that I could convince him to go, but it&#8217;s not working out too well.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking that he will go, if I insist, but he will be totally miserable.\u00c2\u00a0 If we&#8217;re lucky, that&#8217;s all I&#8217;ll have to contend with.\u00c2\u00a0 If we&#8217;re not, it may cause a lot of conflict between us.<\/p>\n<p>To go or not to go, that is the question.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re probably thinking to yourself &#8220;The answer is clear, silly girl.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t go.\u00c2\u00a0 The more I ponder my conundrum, the more that I realize it&#8217;s the right thing to do.\u00c2\u00a0 I should put Brian before anything or anyone else.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s my husband, for crying out loud!\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t just force him to do what I want to..\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, it&#8217;s not even something that I really want to do.\u00c2\u00a0 Why risk conflict over it?<\/p>\n<p>And you thought you wouldn&#8217;t have face peer pressure ever again after high school!\u00c2\u00a0 We never can escape it.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s all around us, in everything that we say and do..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got a major dilemma.\u00c2\u00a0 Ashley is planning this dinner and strip bar extravaganza for Erin and Jason before the their wedding. The problem: Brian just absolutely hates strip bars.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured that I could convince him to go, but it&#8217;s not working out too well.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking that he will go, if I insist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}