{"id":17465,"date":"2014-10-19T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17465"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:00:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:00:25","slug":"eighteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/19\/eighteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"18Anniversary\"\u00a0Eighteen years ago, I walked two blocks to a church in the pouring rain under a gigantic golf umbrella to marry the man of my dreams. I’m lucky\u00a0to have met a man\u00a0who “gets” me. He\u00a0champions my work, will eat anything I cook, makes me laugh, and loves me. How lucky\u00a0I am to get to spend my life with someone like that – happy anniversary Joe!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Eighteen years ago, I walked two blocks to a church in the pouring rain under a gigantic golf umbrella to marry the man of my dreams. I’m lucky\u00a0to have met a man\u00a0who “gets” me. He\u00a0champions my work, will eat anything … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[3322,3320,3321],"class_list":["post-17465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","category-news","tag-chicken-dinners","tag-eighteenth-anniversary","tag-joe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-eighteen","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35283,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/happy-anniversary-joe\/","url_meta":{"origin":17465,"position":0},"title":"Happy Anniversary Joe!","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today marks the twenty fourth anniversary of our walking down the aisle and saying, \"I do\". 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