{"id":564,"date":"2009-10-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2015-03-12T07:05:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T11:05:02","slug":"guppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Guppies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SsaRDmWlbdI\/AAAAAAAABsc\/kdRSPmsGdlI\/s1600-h\/Guppies.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 135px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/SsaRDmWlbdI\/AAAAAAAABsc\/kdRSPmsGdlI\/s320\/Guppies.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388153495216287186\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>What do you see in this picture?  (Click on it to enlarge it if you want.)<\/p>\n<p>It was sent with an email from my state&#8217;s LGBT advocacy organization.  The organization is promoting acquisition of license plates that show the organization&#8217;s symbol and by displaying the plates on your car, you are therefore supporting the organization and its mission.  Okay, fine, I get it.<\/p>\n<p>But what my partner and I both noticed immediately in the photo of these guppies is their vehicles &#8212; a late-model flashy Mercedes coupe and a Jaguar.  Oh come on, gimme a break!<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, guys, this has no appeal to us.  We may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=369\" target=\"_blank\">live in Guppyville<\/a>, but we find the image a display of &#8220;see my expensive toys, fellas?  Haven&#8217;t we &#8216;arrived&#8217;?&#8221;  (I have deleted other comments muttered under my partner&#8217;s and my breath, but I think you get the point.)<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what the guppy term for &#8220;keeping up with the Joneses&#8221; is.   I guess I don&#8217;t know, because we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  Basta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you see in this picture? (Click on it to enlarge it if you want.) It was sent with an email from my state&#8217;s LGBT advocacy organization. The organization is promoting acquisition of license plates that show the organization&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=564\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}