{"id":2028,"date":"2021-03-28T20:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T20:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2021-03-28T20:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T20:53:38","slug":"it-is-a-special-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"It is a special day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have to take a moment to recognize a special day.  18 years ago, on this day, my friends helped set up a blind date for me.  They thought we had so much in common that we would be perfect for each other.  We met at a Starbucks, had a nice dinner at Pasta Luna, the Italian restaurant next door, and then stopped for a drink at the Capital Ale House.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That wonderful night was when I met Elizabeth &#8211; and little did I know how much my life would change for the better that evening.  And as I sit here for the second weekend in a row watching several basketball games all day and blogging about them, I know that I am extremely lucky to have found such a wonderful woman to be my wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so blessed to have such great friends and family.  Elizabeth &#8211; I&#8217;ve found all I&#8217;ve waited for, and I could not ask for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have to take a moment to recognize a special day. 18 years ago, on this day, my friends helped set up a blind date for me. They thought we had so much in common that we would be perfect for each other. We met at a Starbucks, had a nice dinner at Pasta Luna, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tehodgson.com\/stompthelunatic\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}