{"id":48494,"date":"2026-10-19T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T04:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=48494"},"modified":"2026-10-18T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T00:10:17","slug":"it-was-30-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/10\/19\/it-was-30-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was 30 Years Ago Today\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Thirty years ago, on October 19, 1996, Tina and I got hitched!<\/p>\n

Cosmic, Man was there for our 15th anniversary, and he’s made a few appearances since. Naturally, he couldn’t miss the 30th!<\/p>\n

Happy anniversary, Tina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty years ago, on October 19, 1996, Tina and I got hitched! Cosmic, Man was there for our 15th anniversary, and he’s made a few appearances since. Naturally, he couldn’t miss the 30th! Happy anniversary, Tina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":48495,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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],"tags":[6441,17,6442,4826,6444,32,43,3661,5,6443,3347,5874],"class_list":["post-48494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drawer-cards","tag-30th-anniversary","tag-cartoon","tag-cosmic-man","tag-digital-art","tag-handmade-card","tag-hippie","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-psychedelic","tag-tina","tag-wedding-anniversary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-cCa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4769,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/19\/15-years\/","url_meta":{"origin":48494,"position":0},"title":"15 Years","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Fifteen years ago on a similarly rainy day, before a gathering of family, friends and a priest who had buried most of the gangsters in South Philly, Tina and I got hitched! 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