{"id":3415,"date":"2017-10-31T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2017-10-31T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T04:31:00","slug":"tinder-here-there-be-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3415","title":{"rendered":"Tinder: Here There Be Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Emma Grosskopf<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Halloween, I\u2019ll tell you: nothing is scarier to me than Tinder and its overwhelming number of creepy characters. You\u2019ve got several different types of monsters swiping, as we speak, ready to attack.<\/p>\n<p>Zombies: The zombies are the lifeless, boring bodies on the prowl for fresh meat. They always message first, right away, while starting all of their conversations with the same thing: \u201cHey\u201d. No punctuation, no introduction. Dead. Lifeless. And they just. Keep. Coming.<\/p>\n<p>Vampires: Everyone has come across a Vampire at least once. You know the type: dirty jokes, winking emojis and an incessant barrage of requests for nudes. Watch out for these people. Their thirst is unquenchable.<\/p>\n<p>Werewolves: These folks seem sweet at first, with their sappy \u201cgood morning\u201d messages and their acting like they care about your day. However, if you don\u2019t message them back within a couple hours, they morph into angry beasts, showing you the true monster within.<\/p>\n<p>Clown: Clowns are the users who have clever bios. Funny profile pictures. They might message you with a clever pickup line that will make you chuckle. Remember: whether they\u2019re silly rodeo clowns or a regular Pennywise, remember: they\u2019re still a clown.<\/p>\n<p>Ghost: Easy: a ghost ghosts you. You message them first because why not? You only live once! You ask them out and\u2026nothing. No response. Are they just jerks? Are they scared of commitment? Did they just get tired of all of the tired Tinder nonsense and delete the app? Guess you\u2019ll never know since THEY NEVER RESPONDED TO YOU.<\/p>\n<p>Witch\/Wizard: They put you under a spell with their pictures, and you are drooling after this person who is seemingly perfect. Then, they message you with the dreaded \u201cDTF?\u201d (which, in case you\u2019re smart and stay off dating apps, means \u201cdown to frickfrack?\u201d) And then, poof! The spell is broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article by Emma Grosskopf In the spirit of Halloween, I\u2019ll tell you: nothing is scarier to me than Tinder and its overwhelming number of creepy characters. You\u2019ve got several different types of monsters swiping, as we speak, ready to attack. Zombies: The zombies are the lifeless, boring bodies on the prowl for fresh meat. They&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}