{"id":152,"date":"2001-01-09T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2001-01-09T14:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-05-17T10:16:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T14:16:06","slug":"issues-at-the-company-picnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"issues at the company picnic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a real doozy for you: I&#8217;m a happily married woman. Yet the other night at a cocktail party, a female acquaintance of mine made a pass at me! I didn&#8217;t know how to respond, so I acted embarrassed and left the room quickly. We haven&#8217;t talked since, but I know I am going to see her at a picnic next month. I don&#8217;t want it to be horribly awkward. What should I do?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>is it just me or does this sound like the begining of a penthouse forum letter. hell she mights as well have been three cut plumbers there to fix your &#8216;pipes&#8217;.<br \/>\nif this is serious, simply tell her you aren&#8217;t interested. that&#8217;s it. honestly, at least in this situation, is most definitely the right approach. especially given that she&#8217;s a lesbian (or at least lady curious) because women of that type can&#8217;t take your rejection as a personal affront. you just don&#8217;t swing that way. there&#8217;s nothing wrong with asserting your heterosexuality every now ad then.<br \/>\nor bring the hubby along to the picnic. maybe she&#8217;ll get the message without you needing to say anything.<br \/>\nor course, what the hell do i know? i&#8217;m not a woman or a lesbian. too bad though!<br \/>\ncheers,<br \/>\naskastudent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a real doozy for you: I&#8217;m a happily married woman. Yet the other night at a cocktail party, a female acquaintance of mine made a pass at me! I didn&#8217;t know how to respond, so I acted embarrassed and left the room quickly. We haven&#8217;t talked since, but I know I am going to see her at a picnic next month. I don&#8217;t want it to be horribly awkward. What should I do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homosexuality","category-sex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}