{"id":348,"date":"2008-08-05T23:56:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T03:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2008-08-05T23:56:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T03:56:51","slug":"wedding-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wedding-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, Kristian and I aren&#8217;t getting married. At least not any time soon. But we are leaving tomorrow for Rochester, NY where my cousin is getting married. I&#8217;m a bridesmaid. I promise many pictures of me in my purple dress and up-do when we get back. I&#8217;m bringing along a little ninja that a friend crocheted for me, so there might be some fun pictures of my ninja hanging out.<\/p>\n<p>We seem to have reached a point in our lives when all of our friends and family are getting hitched. We&#8217;ve already been to three weddings this year and we have three more between now and November. That&#8217;s not counting the weddings that we&#8217;re missing because they were double booked with other weddings. That&#8217;s a lot of opportunities to choose between the chicken and the fish! (or, in my case, vegetarian)<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy going to weddings, because they&#8217;re a chance to dress up in a fun outfit and dance my little tuckus off. Kristian? Not so much. I don&#8217;t think that he&#8217;s a big fan of ties (who would be?) and he hates dancing. I&#8217;m guessing that weddings rank somewhere between getting a root canal and scrubbing the toilets. They don&#8217;t require novocain, but they don&#8217;t make the bathroom all sparkly clean. At least he gets a gets a decent meal and some cake out of it.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, the chance to see our friends and loved ones pledge their ever-lasting love to each other. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hopers\/2700266512\/\" title=\"IMG_1465 by hopers, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3099\/2700266512_bd64b66ecb_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"IMG_1465\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Kristian and I aren&#8217;t getting married. At least not any time soon. But we are leaving tomorrow for Rochester, NY where my cousin is getting married. I&#8217;m a bridesmaid.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-5C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}