{"id":734269,"date":"2026-04-17T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/734269\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:42:13","slug":"l-a-affairs-live-winner-dumped-at-46-then-a-first-date-takes-a-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/734269\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Affairs Live winner: Dumped at 46, then a first date takes a turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>           Laura House performs at the first L.A. Affairs Live, a Los Angeles Times storytelling competition.   <\/p>\n<p>  April 17, 2026 3 AM PT   <\/p>\n<ul data-element=\"action-bar-menu\" class=\"flex gap-2 list-none \">\n<li data-element=\"action-bar-share\" class=\"flex  relative \">\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Laura House won L.A. Affairs Live, a Los Angeles Times storytelling competition on April 3. She was one of 10 performers who shared real dating stories around the theme of \u201cStarting Fresh.\u201d After being dumped, House decides to get back into the L.A. dating scene in her 40s \u2014 a nightmare. She pushes herself to not only join dating apps, but also be brutally honest on her profile. She books a date. They meet at a restaurant. Things seem promising. Until the date takes a turn before dinner even starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura House performs at the first L.A. Affairs Live, a Los Angeles Times storytelling competition. April 17, 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":734270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[44234,1582,276,4315,101492,6276,18043,2961,303434,224,2444,5337,148310,150063,9260,303435,645,70610,31583,83020],"class_list":["post-734269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-april","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-competition","tag-first-date","tag-l-a","tag-l-a-affairs","tag-la","tag-laura-house","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-losangeles","tag-nightmare","tag-performer","tag-scene","tag-starting-fresh","tag-story","tag-theme","tag-turn","tag-winner"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116419634780084320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}