{"id":593672,"date":"2026-09-08T07:38:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593672\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:38:31","slug":"say-more-im-happily-dating-a-younger-man-whats-with-the-cougar-jokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/593672\/","title":{"rendered":"Say More: I\u2019m happily dating a younger man. What\u2019s with the cougar jokes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"NIT7FIMS7NC4TLOKXUJUCAP6BQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Dear Say More: Why are relationships between older women and younger men viewed as strange or socially unacceptable, while older men and younger women dating appears to be socially acceptable? I am 71 years old and enjoy the company of a 49-year-old man. When we are out, he is often asked if I am his mother, although we look nothing alike. Some of his friends have told him that it seems weird to be with a woman not only who is older, but who would not be considered a \u201cGILF\u201d or \u201cMILF. \u201d I am a grandmother and look like one. haha lol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dear Say More: Why are relationships between older women and younger men viewed as strange or socially unacceptable,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-593672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}