{"id":147441,"date":"2019-11-24T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=147441"},"modified":"2019-11-24T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T16:18:58","slug":"a-decent-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/24\/a-decent-proposal.html","title":{"rendered":"A Decent Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was twenty-five years ago today that I proposed marriage to Margie.<\/p>\n

I remain gobsmacked (and deeply grateful) that she said yes.<\/p>\n

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Twenty-five years ago I popped the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[14],"tags":[1982,1981],"class_list":["post-147441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-marriage","tag-dweamwiffinadweam","tag-mawwiage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1994-Proposal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21366,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/unblogged-bits-wed-29-jun-11-1130.html","url_meta":{"origin":147441,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 29-Jun-11 1130)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jun-11 11:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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