{"id":558,"date":"2006-05-25T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/25\/five-years\/"},"modified":"2006-09-14T23:16:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T03:16:28","slug":"five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/25\/five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/05\/wedding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/05\/_wedding.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"205\" alt=\"Five Years!\" title=\"Five Years!\"  class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it seems like that was just a minute ago, sometimes I can&#8217;t remember a time before then.<\/p>\n<p>Trish tells me that we&#8217;re through the easy part, and the next two years are the hard ones. I&#8217;m not too worried.<\/p>\n<p>For the record the people in the image, left-to-right are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My &#8220;little&#8221; brother<\/li>\n<li>Chef Paul, a.k.a. &#8220;Chia The Cat&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Me<\/li>\n<li>My lovely wife<\/li>\n<li>Bondage Poster Girl (a.k.a. &#8220;Ralph&#8217;s Date&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Ralph, my Best Man<\/li>\n<li>Ian, a.k.a. &#8220;Smiley&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The two bridesmaids, Trish&#8217;s sisters, elected not to do the The Strut through town from city hall to the restaurant, and thus were not around for the candid snapshot in front of The Stag Shop.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Sometimes it seems like that was just a minute ago, sometimes I can&#8217;t remember a time before then. Trish tells me that we&#8217;re through the easy part, and the next two years are the hard ones. I&#8217;m not too worried. For the record the people in the image, left-to-right are: My &#8220;little&#8221; brother Chef Paul, a.k.a. &#8220;Chia The Cat&#8221; Me&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/25\/five-years\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-90","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}