{"id":3176,"date":"2016-03-10T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T03:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2016-03-10T19:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T03:01:24","slug":"dear-esmeralda-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/dear-esmeralda-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Esmeralda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/03\/EsmeraldaColor.jpg\" alt=\"EsmeraldaColor\" width=\"279\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/03\/EsmeraldaColor.jpg 2848w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/03\/EsmeraldaColor-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/03\/EsmeraldaColor-768x1156.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/03\/EsmeraldaColor-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Esmeralda,<\/p>\n<p>My roommate flirts with my fianc\u00e9 all the time when they come over, and I think they might be in love with them, and I think my fianc\u00e9 might like them back and the three of us are supposed to live together next year. What should I do?<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nCaught in a Love Game<\/p>\n<p>Dear Caught in a Love Game,<\/p>\n<p>Well, first off, props for the Lady Gaga reference, even if it was unintentional.<br \/>\nFor second, I have some questions for you: Do you want love? Do you want fame? Are you in the game?<br \/>\nFor third, gurl what!? Oh honey, nay nay! Goodness! Lord have mercy on your fianc\u00e9&#8217;s soul! Just soak the body in a hydrofluoric acid solution \u00e0 la Breaking Bad and wear gloves!<br \/>\nAll joking aside, let\u2019s get down to brass tacks. Have you tried talking to both parties separately? Communication is key! It may be a misunderstanding. If not, when all else fails, as they say in France (probably), have a m\u00e9nag\u00e9 trois!<\/p>\n<p>XOXO,<br \/>\nEsmeralda<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Esmeralda, My roommate flirts with my fianc\u00e9 all the time when they come over, and I think they might be in love with them, and I think my fianc\u00e9 might like them back and the three of us are supposed to live together next year. What should I do? Sincerely, Caught in a Love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":3232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}