{"id":4277,"date":"2010-03-17T21:18:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T02:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2014-05-05T05:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T00:51:50","slug":"%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b0%d1%8f-%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b0-thanks-but-no-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%b0%d1%8f-%d0%bd%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b5%d1%81%d1%82%d0%b0-thanks-but-no-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian lovelies&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4278\" title=\"Russian_Brides\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/Russian_Brides.jpg\" alt=\"Russian_Brides\" width=\"437\" height=\"656\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Somewheregrad\u2026 in Russia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hello, lovely ladies\u2026 interesting, I must say, to receive (completely unsolicited) the almost daily communiques from you by e-mail. Please let me be very upfront and straightforward with all you would-be Russian brides though (Anastasia, Ekatarinna, Irina, Izabella, Katerinka, Katushka, Luliya [and your remarkably attractive gymnast cousin], Oksana, Svetlana, Vikulya, and Yana\u2026 forgive me if I\u2019ve missed a few)\u2014while I am predictably flattered at your charming overtures and bold offers of intimate relationships and marriage, I&#8217;m honestly \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not looking<\/span>\u201d (if you know what I mean), and I think it\u2019s only right to suggest that you expend your energies more productively elsewhere.*<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice to know that you think I am an interesting person (your stated reason for deciding to get to know me better\u2014though how you <em>know <\/em>this is still a mystery to me) and it is very thoughtful of you to wish that I could be truly happy (I actually thought I <em>was<\/em> until you pointed out that perhaps I wasn\u2019t). It\u2019s quite generous for you to share all that personal information about yourself (with interests including ballet, fencing, music, reading, books, equestrian sports, theater, computers, old movies, gourmet cooking, good conversations,\u201cand the many other things that make life beautiful\u201d\u2014you sound like the real Renaissance woman) and the fact that you have never been married (I have\u2014did you know that?), that you \u201cdo not have a boy friend at this stage of your life,\u201d that you work for a living (a real asset, I\u2019ll admit), and that\u00a0\u201call you miss is a beloved person\u201d with whom to \u201chave a family in the future.\u201d I agree that \u201cwe should use every chance we have to find happiness\u2026\u201d (hard to argue with that logic), but back to the point I was trying to make earlier, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I\u2019m really not looking<\/span>\u201d\u2026 and I suspect that if you really did your homework well, you\u2019d find that I\u2019m likely considerably too old for you anyway.\u00a0|-:<\/p>\n<p>O\u0433\u043e\u0440\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0439. <em>(that\u2019s Russian for \u201csorry,\u201d right?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*On the off chance that a third party with more nefarious motives is using your likeness and good name in a solicitous manner, I thought you\u2019d want to know\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewheregrad\u2026 in Russia Hello, lovely ladies\u2026 interesting, I must say, to receive (completely unsolicited) the almost daily communiques from you by e-mail. Please let me be very upfront and straightforward with all you would-be Russian brides though (Anastasia, Ekatarinna, Irina, Izabella, Katerinka, Katushka, Luliya [and your remarkably attractive gymnast cousin], Oksana, Svetlana, Vikulya, and Yana\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,7,8,14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14263,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/14263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}