{"id":1199,"date":"2011-08-16T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T19:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2011-08-16T20:47:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T19:47:49","slug":"the-monkeyshines-troop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/the-monkeyshines-troop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Monkeyshines Troop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIt&#8217;s somewhat strange to reflect that our Little Monkey owes his existence, in part at least, to Sarah Beeny, the (seemingly) ever-pregnant host of a range of home improvement shows. For Mrs. Monkeyshines and I met via the dating website that she founded, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysinglefriend.com\" title=\"mysinglefriend.com\">mysinglefriend.com (MSF)<\/a>. MSF&#8217;s schtick is that a friend writes the bit of the profile that says how amazing you are, while you get to be self-deprecating in your section of the profile. A strategy that works a treat for two amazagoggling individuals such as Mrs Monkeyshines and I, who are modest about how absolutely brilliant we both are. (And people wonder why the Little Monkey is such a charmer &#8211; how could he be otherwise?&#8230;)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1202\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/troop.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Monkeyshines troop\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/troop.jpg 320w, https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/troop-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Monkeyshines troop.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe three of us recently featured on MSF&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysinglefriend.com\/blog\/success_story_james_and_anna.html\" title=\"mysinglefriend.com\">Success Stories<\/a><\/em> blog, exhorting others to give the site a whirl, since it worked out so splendidly for us. (If you peruse the other success stories, you&#8217;ll see that most of them are about people getting engaged, or maybe married; ha, we beat those slackers by getting ourselves a <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/1124\" title=\"A fashion-conscious fellow\">cute little monkey<\/a>! And a <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/category\/feline\" title='The feline thoughts of Binky Mackenzie'>cute little cat<\/a>!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s somewhat strange to reflect that our Little Monkey owes his existence, in part at least, to Sarah Beeny, the (seemingly) ever-pregnant host of a range of home improvement shows. For Mrs. Monkeyshines and I met via the dating website that she founded, mysinglefriend.com (MSF). MSF&#8217;s schtick is that a friend writes the bit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}