{"id":5714,"date":"2012-05-06T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=5714"},"modified":"2021-05-06T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T17:18:00","slug":"wedding-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/05\/wedding-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We were married before most people in this picture had an email address.<\/p>\n

Our first home didn’t have a computer and we couldn’t imagine a need for cell phones.<\/p>\n

Obviously, when we were engaged, we didn’t make it “Facebook official.”<\/p>\n

We have no digital photos of our wedding day and the only video footage we have is on VHS.<\/p>\n

Our car had no air conditioning and I had still not had braces or my wisdom teeth pulled.<\/p>\n

Gasoline was $1.30 a gallon. I think stamps were $0.34.<\/p>\n

Four of the six children in the front row are now married, two are parents, one has a mission call, and the youngest graduates from high school this month.<\/p>\n

Several of our relatives in this picture have passed away.<\/p>\n

At this time, neither Richard nor I had earned a college degree. Only one of us had a job for the summer. We moved to a new state and our important belongings easily fit in the trunk.<\/p>\n

In many ways, it doesn’t seem like 17 years have passed, but when I look at the life we have now, I see how much has changed. It’s true that the most important choice you ever make is the person you marry, and I appreciate the impact of the decision more each year. I am so grateful that he asked and that I said yes.<\/p>\n

We didn’t have much, but we had each other, and that was and has always been everything I wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were married before most people in this picture had an email address. Our first home didn’t have a computer and we couldn’t imagine a need for cell phones. Obviously, when we were engaged, we didn’t make it “Facebook official.” We have no digital photos of our wedding day and the only video footage we … Continue reading Wedding Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20194,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/20194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}