{"id":22443,"date":"2025-09-15T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/22443\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:13:08","slug":"shrekking-or-deliberately-dating-ugly-men-is-a-new-low-for-modern-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/22443\/","title":{"rendered":"Shrekking \u2013 or deliberately dating \u2018ugly\u2019 men \u2013 is a new low for modern love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo by Andrew Bershaw\/Icon Sportswire via Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/f84f0afd-330b-42ef-986d-8f85a3b603d2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Photo by Andrew Bershaw\/Icon Sportswire via Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the 2001 animated classic Shrek, a princess falls in love with an ogre. It\u2019s a simple, straightforward plot predicated on the idea that looks don\u2019t matter, because true love always prevails. Except, that\u2019s not really the premise at all. Spoiler alert: the princess is secretly an ogre herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Despite being one of the most well-known and revered pieces of pop culture (for good reason: The muffin man! Puss in Boots! The dragon who falls in love with a donkey!), Shrek evidently remains woefully misunderstood. At least, that\u2019s the takeaway from the latest viral dating trend currently dominating digital discourse, which has been somewhat heinously named \u201cShrekking\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Andrew Bershaw\/Icon Sportswire via Getty In the 2001 animated classic Shrek, a princess falls in love&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,898,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-22443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}