{"id":2705,"date":"2020-08-13T21:01:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T04:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/?p=2705"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:49:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:49:55","slug":"this-modern-age-mfrwauthor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/13\/this-modern-age-mfrwauthor\/","title":{"rendered":"This modern age! #MFRWauthor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Online dating \u2013 have you? Would you?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"OnlineNo, when I was dating there was no \u2018online\u2019 as we know it today, although there have been forms of online dating for years \u2013 the personals in newspapers.<\/p>\n

Would I? I don\u2019t think so, I\u2019m not that brave.<\/p>\n

The closest I got to dating someone I\u2019d never met before was a blind date. I was a bundle of nerves. My clothes, my hair, would he take one look and run? Worse, what would he look like? Fortunately, we didn\u2019t run in opposite directions and had a lovely evening.<\/p>\n

However, someone I know very well did test the online dating waters. She was at a crossroads in life, not sure which way to go and took the plunge. After chatting with a few people from various parts of the world, she connected with an American guy. I didn\u2019t worry about this harmless chatting, after all she was in Australia, he was safely tucked away on the other side of the Pacific. Just like pen friends in the old days.<\/p>\n

That changed when she decided to travel to America to meet him.\"Meeting
\nDumbstruck, I spluttered, \u201cAre you insane? Who is he, where does he live? Don\u2019t you know con men and axe murderers lure unsuspecting females this way?\u201d Finally, \u201cYou\u2019re bloody mad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Undeterred, my daughter, who hates flying, travelled to the USA to meet the axe murderer. They clicked. She flew home, applied for her visa which was approved, and returned to the States. A couple of years later they married, she became a conditional permanent resident, then full permanent resident<\/a>. Her citizenship application was approved on 9\/11\/2018.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve enjoyed some wonderful holidays in the USA with my daughter and son in law and the bonuses that came with it. Visiting the beautiful Michigan Upper Peninsula and Niagara Falls are just two.
\nNow COVID has all of us confined to quarters, I\u2019m grateful for \u2018online\u2019, where we can chat to friends and families on Skype and Facetime until it\u2019s safe to travel again.<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n

Read the next blog in the blog hop by going here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jan Selbourne<\/a><\/p>\n

The Woman Behind the Mirror<\/a>
\nThe Proposition<\/a>
\nLies of Gold<\/a>\u2014Silver Historical for 2019: Coffee Pot Book Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Online dating \u2013 have you? Would you? No, when I was dating there was no \u2018online\u2019 as we know it today, although there have been forms of online dating for years \u2013 the personals in newspapers. Would I? I don\u2019t think so, I\u2019m not that brave. The closest I got to dating someone I\u2019d never … Continue reading “This modern age! #MFRWauthor”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1070,5,1246,1],"tags":[28,1491,204,1490,1492],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-52-week-challenge","category-author-information","category-mfrw","category-uncategorized","tag-jan-selbourne","tag-meeting-someone-online","tag-moving","tag-online-dating","tag-singles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wA33-HD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nomadauthors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}