{"id":259,"date":"2013-09-09T01:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T01:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=259"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:42:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:42:28","slug":"lucky-me-anniversary-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=259","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Me! Anniversary Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/4555986533\/\" title=\"Heather Wedding_0001 by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Heather Wedding_0001\" height=\"446\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/4555986533_24383c8c29-300x267.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Yep, big on the Lucky Me)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Lucky me, twenty four years ago this beautiful woman became my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/9705173946\/\" title=\"Untitled by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Untitled\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/9705173946_db765ac204-225x300.jpg\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(We dropped off the kid at Nana&#8217;s (the World&#8217;s greatest MIL (Can I really next parentheses, who is stopping me)) and had lunch.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She and I have been through a bunch of ups and downs of all types and she has stood by me the whole time.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Alan-Movie-Theather-Recliner.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"238\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Alan-Movie-Theather-Recliner-300x224.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(One of the theaters in town has switched over to huge recliners. I&#8217;m putting together a movie bag for when we go next time. Jammies, Snuggie, Pillow, I&#8217;m going for it.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We have moved a few times and had a child together and we have lost parents and went through other things, and she has never wavered. We have also shared a lot of great times and had lots of fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/9705350340\/\" title=\"Alan Heather Dinner by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alan Heather Dinner\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/9705350340_f0b1e9f100-300x150.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(I know this looks strange but we were seated in a booth and it is hard to to lean across for a good shot in a booth so we took pictures of each other. We love to dress up and play grownups.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">She is my best friend and my confididante and most trusted advisor and my one person accountability group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/9695312321\/\" title=\"With Heather celebrating 24 years together by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"With Heather celebrating 24 years together\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/9695312321_9143551b52-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(The rooftop bar of the Mayo Hotel. Very cool place, very low light.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I can&#8217;t imagine life without her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28381904@N06\/9702588392\/\" title=\"Gearing up for annual #anniversary #bikeride by alnbbates, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gearing up for annual #anniversary #bikeride\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/9702588392_e492a29dce-300x300.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(My Sister Ellen informs me via Facebook that the bikes are bigger than the car. I think she is right.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So we celebrated over several days, we ate, we watched movies, we went out to dinner at a really nice dressup place and then we went out for a grownup dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSCN0853.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSCN0853-300x225.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(There I am jutting my chin out to minimize my double chins.What really worked best is tightening my chin strap up.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We always go out for an Anniversary bike ride. Sometimes we do as many miles as we have been married. This time we only got 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSCN0940.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSCN0940-300x225.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">(Introducing YogiCam!! Here I am about to pass somebody.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Happy Anniversary Sweetie!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Yep, big on the Lucky Me) Lucky me, twenty four years ago this beautiful woman became my wife. (We dropped off the kid at Nana&#8217;s (the World&#8217;s greatest MIL (Can I really next parentheses, who is stopping me)) and had lunch.) She and I have been through a bunch of ups and downs of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversary","category-sweetie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}