{"id":1000,"date":"2010-12-31T11:08:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2010-12-31T11:08:49","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T15:08:49","slug":"manfaq-friday-only-360-shopping-days-til-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"ManFAQ Friday:  Only 360 Shopping Days &#8216;Til Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, and that means answer time! For those of you who have commented with questions from previous ManFAQs, thank you. I&#8217;m adding yours to the list of questions women have asked about men over the years, and I will answer them all in turn &#8211; to continue to demystify the more malodorous gender for those of the gentler. Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Why do men hate shopping?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s not that we hate shopping.\u00a0 We just hate going to multiple stores and trying on multiple things and bargain hunting &#8211; we want to get in, acquire the target, and get out.\u00a0 It goes back to our roots as hunters &#8211; find it, kill it, drag it home and, usually, wait for you to cook it.\u00a0 Ug no gather.\u00a0 Ug hunt.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no blood-lust in trying on six dresses, and we probably can&#8217;t tell the difference anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, it may depend on where you&#8217;re shopping.\u00a0 Most guys don&#8217;t mind so much if you&#8217;re dragging them to Nordstrom&#8217;s &#8211; the people running that store understand how this works, and they&#8217;ve set up &#8220;guy stations&#8221; in several places through the store.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like dropping off your kids at the play area in Ikea, except you don&#8217;t have to check us in and out.\u00a0 Big comfy chairs, sofas, and the like where we can sit and watch all the people &#8211; most of whom look like you, which is nice &#8211; or fall asleep, which is actually more likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Now you know.\u00a0 Please, feel free to comment with any questions <strong>you&#8217;d<\/strong> like answered!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do men hate shopping?  Actual questions, posed by real women, and answered by a REAL man. What could go wrong?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}