{"id":60,"date":"2002-12-29T20:31:16","date_gmt":"2002-12-29T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=60"},"modified":"2002-12-29T20:31:16","modified_gmt":"2002-12-29T20:31:16","slug":"growing-old-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Growing Old Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to wish my wife a very happy birthday on this 29th day of December.<br \/>\nToday, the year flap on the old electric clock flips forward just a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been accused of being too sappy in my blog &#8212; too mushy.  I have to say<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;m guilty as charged (my<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hallmark.com\">Hallmark<\/a> application is in the mail).<br \/>\nThis year I&#8217;ve had a lot of happy things to<br \/>\ntalk about and a lot of happy things to say.  In life, and in marriage,<br \/>\nyou have your ups and downs.  This year definitely fits in the former<br \/>\ncolumn.  A lot of it revolves around the fact that there&#8217;s a baby<br \/>\non the way.  My life, and that of my wife&#8217;s, is rapidly changing.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s an exciting time.  But it&#8217;s also more than that.  Things have just<br \/>\nbeen, well, good.<\/p>\n<p>My wife isn&#8217;t just a small part of the equation.  I&#8217;m so lucky to<br \/>\nhave someone who understands, loves, and can refrain from maiming me on<br \/>\na daily basis.  Sometimes two people just click and there&#8217;s no argument,<br \/>\nno doubt that they should be together.  &#8220;50\/50&#8221;, the preacher said.<br \/>\nSomehow I still got the better end of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The wife and I have been through a lot.  The hot chick who sat next<br \/>\nto me in a high school class now sits in my living room.  We&#8217;ve seen<br \/>\na lot of firsts: jobs, a house, furniture, cars.  We&#8217;ve grown up together.<br \/>\nWe once passed notes in Human Dynamics class.  We now prepare to enter parenthood and I&#8217;ve never been<br \/>\nmore confident of our relationship.  To say I&#8217;ll a truly lucky guy<br \/>\njust doesn&#8217;t say it all.<\/p>\n<p>Jenn, you are my best friend, my lover, and, soon, the mother of my children.<br \/>\nI love you.  Have a very happy birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to wish my wife a very happy birthday on this 29th day of December. Today, the year flap on the old electric clock flips forward just a bit. I&#8217;ve been accused of being too sappy in my blog &#8212; too mushy. I have to say that I&#8217;m guilty as charged (my Hallmark application [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}