{"id":15922,"date":"2014-08-19T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T18:30:23","slug":"real-life-dialogue-the-inscrutable-double-x-chromosome-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/real-life-dialogue-the-inscrutable-double-x-chromosome-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-Life Dialogue: The Inscrutable Double-X Chromosome Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/reallifedialog_sm.jpg?resize=200%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Real-Life Dialogue\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><em>[The setting: a comfortable suburban home in North Florida, USA, on an August weekend in 2014. She is sitting in the living room, her laptop computer open; He is walking through the living room on some mission or another, in one direction or another.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong> Oh, these people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He:<\/strong> Hmm? What people?<\/p>\n<p><em>[He stops to look over Her shoulder. On-screen is a publicity still from a current television mini-series, based on a hugely popular novel of romance and time travel. The photo depicts an early moment in the romantic relationship between a twentieth-century English woman, Claire, and an eighteenth-century Scotsman named Jamie. Claire is tending Jamie&#8217;s battle wounds. Jamie is sitting quietly, looking at Claire, and <em>of course<\/em> wearing a kilt.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>He:<\/strong> Nice picture of them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong> Yes. I&#8217;m just saying, you should read some of the comments on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He:<\/strong> Such as?<\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong> Like this one. <em>[She points.]<\/em> &#8220;Those knees. *SWOON*&#8221; <em>[She laughs.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>He:<\/strong> Er, uh&#8230; Wait. Women swoon over men&#8217;s knees? They even <em>notice<\/em> them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>She:<\/strong> You&#8217;d be surprised what women notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The setting: a comfortable suburban home in North Florida, USA, on an August weekend in 2014. She is sitting in the living room, her laptop computer open; He is walking through the living room on some mission or another, in one direction or another.] She: Oh, these people. He: Hmm? What people? 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