{"id":2596,"date":"2013-12-30T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2013-12-30T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T14:12:00","slug":"it-happened-to-me-i-had-dinner-with-a-cult-uh-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2013\/12\/30\/it-happened-to-me-i-had-dinner-with-a-cult-uh-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"IT HAPPENED TO ME: I HAD DINNER WITH A CULT (UH, I THINK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">At 17, I went to a bizarre dinner in rural Mexico with my boyfriend&#8217;s family and one of their colleagues. It was &#8230; weird. But was it a cult? I might never know.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"article_head-0\">\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">So, let me preface this: I\u2019m not completely sold on the \u201ccult\u201d title. This is probably because the word \u201ccult\u201d sparks instantaneous imagery of hooded figures in white robes with bleary drug eyes, and of 50-day standoffs in the desert heat. And I couldn\u2019t possibly have attended a potluck with a cult leader and his followers, right? I keep denying it out of residual shock and disbelief, but the older I get, the more convinced I feel.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"article_body-0\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Let me back-track. Imagine a 17-year-old, comically cynical Gabi with frizzy, dyed red hair and a really tragic \u201cthing\u201d for dudes who played Pixies covers on their sick Fenders. Like, come on, Gabs. Have some self-worth! Don\u2019t make out with a closeted Republican just because he can croon some dumb Jeff Buckley song, ya know?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/issues\/it-happened-to-me-i-had-dinner-with-a-cult\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 17, I went to a bizarre dinner in rural Mexico with my boyfriend&#8217;s family and one of their colleagues. It was &#8230; weird. But was it a cult? I might never know. So, let me preface this: I\u2019m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2013\/12\/30\/it-happened-to-me-i-had-dinner-with-a-cult-uh-i-think\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}