{"id":30872,"date":"2013-08-30T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T04:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=30872"},"modified":"2013-08-30T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T04:32:30","slug":"worlds-loneliest-man-looking-for-love-desperate-bachelor-wanders-the-streets-for-12-years-wearing-a-sandwich-board-asking-wealthy-women-to-marry-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=30872","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s loneliest man looking for love: Desperate bachelor wanders the streets for 12 years wearing a sandwich board asking wealthy women to marry him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robert-Darling.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30870\" alt=\"Robert Darling\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robert-Darling.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robert-Darling.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robert-Darling-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Robert-Darling-336x300.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Lonely bachelors looking for love often turn to dating websites in the search for a partner.<\/p>\n<p>But Robert Darling has taken things that little bit further &#8211; by wandering the streets of New York for twelve years with a sandwich board asking women to marry him.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployed 58-year-old &#8211; who admits he is a &#8216;great conversationalist&#8217;\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0says he wants a wealthy lady to take care of him.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey,resident\u00a0 spends two hours traveling to Manhattan twice a week on his quest for a soulmate.<\/p>\n<p>His billboard declares he is open to offers and includes his phone number and email address.<\/p>\n<p>Plagued with an unsuccessful love life for forty years, he resorted to extreme measures to find a suitor.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Darling said he has never had a serious relationship and his dating history is sparse.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;Give up? Never! I&#8217;m just warming up. It&#8217;s just a matter of time. I&#8217;m very patient and I know great success is just around the corner.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonely bachelors looking for love often turn to dating websites in the search for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":30870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,143,137],"tags":[2134],"class_list":["post-30872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-usa","category-world","tag-robert-darling","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}