{"id":5562,"date":"2011-02-06T21:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2011-02-06T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T04:13:21","slug":"no-strings-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=5562","title":{"rendered":"No Strings Attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"499\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ubfcfs98MBw?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Brian and I went to see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1411238\/\" >No Strings Attached<\/a> last night and thoroughly enjoyed it.  I think it&#8217;s because we could relate.  Relationship-wise, he&#8217;s a lot like Adam and I&#8217;m a lot like Emma.  And, when we first got together, we were hooking up before we were officially a couple.  We called it &#8220;making friendship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just like Emma, I was emotionally detached because I tend to be crazy and jealous when I&#8217;m in a relationship.  NSA was the only way it could work.  Eventually, we fell in love and things did progress.  Brian made me go to therapy for my jealousy and relationship hang-ups and, after one visit with this therapist who thought she was Sharon Stone in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103772\/\" >Basic Instinct<\/a>, he said we didn&#8217;t have to go back.  LOL.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Some pictures of Brian and I back in our NSA days&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/21806750\/\"  title=\"Kiss by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/17\/21806750_e16ff36f54.jpg\" height=\"232\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Kiss\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/21806752\/\"  title=\"Brian and Ching by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/15\/21806752_180531b012.jpg\" height=\"232\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Brian and Ching\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/3206791619\/\"  title=\"Brian and Hobbie, December 1999 by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3315\/3206791619_e71803cdfb.jpg\" height=\"218\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Brian and Hobbie, December 1999\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/3207636356\/\"  title=\"Ching, December 1999 by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3399\/3207636356_bde2378db8.jpg\" height=\"218\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Ching, December 1999\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, for those of you who think NSA that generally ends badly, sometimes it does work out.  We are living proof of it.  Also, the movie was actually quite entertaining (with or without parallels to our own life).  We had some good laughs in the theater.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5420496594\/\"  title=\"2011-02-05 21.20.01.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5134\/5420496594_f92348d16d.jpg\" class=\"pic\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"2011-02-05 21.20.01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the movie, we stopped by Back Alley to say hi to Jay and Cory who were there watching the UFC fights there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I went to see No Strings Attached last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it&#8217;s because we could relate. Relationship-wise, he&#8217;s a lot like Adam and I&#8217;m a lot like Emma. And, when we first got together, we were hooking up before we were officially a couple. We called it &#8220;making friendship.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[1348,2480,1347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562"}],"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=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5567,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}