{"id":286,"date":"2006-07-11T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=286"},"modified":"2006-07-11T05:00:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T09:00:05","slug":"oh-thank-heaven-for-711-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/07\/11\/oh-thank-heaven-for-711-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Thank Heaven for 7\/11 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it was just eight years ago today that me and the missus got hitched in a candle ceremony, outside, on a day when the wind blew so hard that it blew over the arbor my father-in-law built (thank god it didn&#8217;t land on anybody &#8211; he built that thing pretty damn solid), blew the flame from the oil lamp we used to light the candles over so that it set my mother-in-law&#8217;s antique lace tablecloth on fire, and diverted every flight in the vicinity over my in-laws&#8217; back yard, so so that we couldn&#8217;t hear a goddamn thing (still not sure if she said &#8220;i do&#8221; or &#8220;fuck no,&#8221; but the priest\u00a0 &#8211; well, he was an ex-priest, actually, who&#8217;d quit the priesthood to marry a nun &#8211; signed the license, so I guess she&#8217;s stuck with me).<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, there won&#8217;t be any of that mushy, in the same state (let alone the same house) stuff this year, as I&#8217;ve cleverly managed to arrange for my wife to have the whole house to herself today.\u00a0 Plus, she gets the dog.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t get any better than that.\u00a0 Anyhow, Happy Anniversary, Honey.\u00a0 Try not to pick up too many strange men today (you&#8217;d be hard-pressed to find one\u00a0 stranger than me, though this blog would be a pretty good place to start).\u00a0 I miss you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Our cake\" title=\"Our cake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/images\/wc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it was just eight years ago today that me and the missus got hitched in a candle ceremony, outside, on a day when the wind blew so hard that it blew over the arbor my father-in-law built (thank god it didn&#8217;t land on anybody &#8211; he built that thing pretty damn solid), blew the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}