{"id":140,"date":"2022-07-06T01:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T01:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2022-07-06T01:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T01:04:04","slug":"well-butdenial-is-simply-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/06\/well-butdenial-is-simply-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, but\u2026denial is simply wrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my capacity as a rideshare drive (both Uber and Lyft) I have occasion to pick people up at the beach. I am currently sitting at home, several White Claws in, looking at Uber surge at the beach  wondering why I wasn&#8217;t out driving at the beach. Aside from the alcohol in the White Claws the answer dawned on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing good would come of it. I am a straight male. I would be put in the position of potentially picking up scantily clad female riders. By today&#8217;s standards, openly admitting that those female riders look pleasing to me would be tantamount to admitting that I suffer from &#8220;toxic masculinity.&#8221; And yet denying the same would be lying to myself and my maleness. Instead, rather than earning an income I avoid the conflict altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my capacity as a rideshare drive (both Uber and Lyft) I have occasion to pick people up at the beach. I am currently sitting at home, several White Claws in, looking at Uber surge at the beach wondering why I wasn&#8217;t out driving at the beach. Aside from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellbut.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}