{"id":469,"date":"2008-04-02T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2024-09-06T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:49:20","slug":"a-compliment-taken-wrongly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/a-compliment-taken-wrongly\/","title":{"rendered":"A Compliment Taken Wrongly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sensitive woman. I watch sappy movies and I cry. I take things word for word. I&#8217;m gullible and to some, perhaps a dumb blonde.<\/p>\n<p>I accepted the title proudly and I have no reason to prove them wrong. I am who I am, so be it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><\/span><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/R_NWatsoW1I\/AAAAAAAAA7A\/w130yEm304U\/s1600-h\/hot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/R_NWatsoW1I\/AAAAAAAAA7A\/w130yEm304U\/s320\/hot.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184582612976950098\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Early this week, the rebellious and denial monster in me took over when I received an email from a first time reader of my blog. Truthfully, I feel bad exposing the email in public. Allow me to apologize in advance.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/R_NgqtsoW3I\/AAAAAAAAA7Q\/w-gztkx71T0\/s1600-h\/P1270586+%5B320x200%5D.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/R_NgqtsoW3I\/AAAAAAAAA7Q\/w-gztkx71T0\/s320\/P1270586+%5B320x200%5D.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5184593882971134834\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>A compliment taken wrongly on my profile photo. I should be flattered but I was not. I don&#8217;t even know where to begin on how to respond to the email. Ignorance is a bliss. I ignored it for a while but it ate me slowly. The gnawing, agitating thought nibbled through my bones that the attraction of readers was purely to see photos of me. That&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n<p>My confidence has absurd dimension. So, I changed my profile photo to what indeed I deem as a photo of me looking sexy. To my horror, yet another reader commented that the photo looked as if I have shit up my ass. That&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n<p>In short, you can&#8217;t please anyone. Whatever you do, wear or say or write, you are judged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a sensitive woman. I watch sappy movies and I cry. I take things word for word. I&#8217;m gullible and to some, perhaps a dumb blonde. I accepted the title proudly and I have no reason to prove them wrong. I am who I am, so be it. Early this week, the rebellious and denial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-in-a-days-work","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}