{"id":14658,"date":"2013-10-19T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=14658"},"modified":"2021-11-13T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T17:53:13","slug":"it-was-a-very-good-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2013\/10\/19\/it-was-a-very-good-year\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was a Very Good Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bad-frank\"<\/a>17 years ago today, Tina and I walked down an aisle at Saint Paul’s; then we walked to Ralph’s Italian Restaurant<\/a> for lunch, and then we and our wedding party walked back to our house where we were entertained by Tony Dell’s band<\/a> and had some cake.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

At one point Tony and the band offered the microphone to the crowd of about 50+ people we packed into our rowhome. Nobody stepped forward so I did and sang the only song I knew by heart that I could think of . I sang It Was a Very Good Year<\/em> badly.<\/p>\n

\"tony-dell\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17 years ago today, Tina and I walked down an aisle at Saint Paul’s; then we walked to Ralph’s Italian Restaurant for lunch, and then we and our wedding party walked back to our house where we were entertained by … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[2841,2840,3664,354,3669,2844,2846,2843,2842,2845],"class_list":["post-14658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","category-news","tag-2841","tag-annivesary","tag-drawer-cards","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-ralphs","tag-saint-paul","tag-south-philadelphia","tag-tony-dell","tag-triangle-tavern"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-3Oq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25116,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/03\/25\/ralphs-sarcones\/","url_meta":{"origin":14658,"position":0},"title":"Ralph’s & Sarcone’s","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"March 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Ralph's Italian Restaurant and Sarcone's Bakery are two icons of 9th Street's Italian Market. Both businesses have been around for over a century and are family owned.Ralph's holds a special place in my heart because we had our wedding luncheon there - because who doesn't love Italian food? Among the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Italian Market"","block_context":{"text":"Italian Market","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/italian-market\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/9thStreet.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/9thStreet.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/9thStreet.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21214,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/19\/stuck-on-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":14658,"position":1},"title":"Stuck on You","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortly after walking down the aisle twenty years ago, this photo was taken. My groom, unaccustomed to wearing any type of jewelry, was twisting the brand new wedding band around his finger. I like to joke that he was trying to pull it off. Twenty years later, it\u2019s still there,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Domestic Bliss"","block_context":{"text":"Domestic Bliss","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/domestic-bliss-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/XX-Years.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/XX-Years.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/XX-Years.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20367,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/02\/14\/stupid-cupid\/","url_meta":{"origin":14658,"position":2},"title":"Stupid Cupid","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"...and here's my Valentine to Tina. I saw this poor guy on a stoop in South Philadelphia during one of my South Philly Safaris, and I knew I couldn't pass it up with February 14th right around the corner.","rel":"","context":"In "Drawer Cards"","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/headless_Cupid.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22764,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2017\/10\/19\/when-i-was-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":14658,"position":3},"title":"When I was 21…","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A warning sign attached to a fairly scary bar in the Grays Ferry section of Philadelphia was the inspiration for this year's anniversary card.","rel":"","context":"In "Drawer Cards"","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-19-96-21.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-19-96-21.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10-19-96-21.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":945,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/02\/28\/birthday-crown-no-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":14658,"position":4},"title":"Birthday Crown No. 10","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"February 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest and greatest from Tina for Lloyd on the tenth anniversary of his birth. The theme this year was the violin since that is what Lloyd has been learning this school year. See a recent recital here. Sharp-eyed music aficionados may notice that the music around the band is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Drawer Cards"","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/10crown-detail.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5722,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/12\/27\/electric-lloyd\/","url_meta":{"origin":14658,"position":5},"title":"Electric Lloyd","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"December 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Electric Lloyd from Joe Williams on Vimeo. We shot about 150 photos of Lloyd in order to capture this year's Christmas card. When I was importing the images from the SD cards to the computer, I got a quick, movie-like flow of images of our illuminated son. I wanted to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Drawer Cards"","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}