{"id":160762,"date":"2025-04-08T18:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160762"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T00:41:44","slug":"the-big-three-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/08\/the-big-three-oh.html","title":{"rendered":"The Big Three-Oh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Thirty years ago today, I married Margie.<\/p>\n

Definitely one of, if not the, smartest and most rewarding thing I ever did.<\/p>\n

The odds aren’t fantastic that we’ll make it another thirty after this, but however many we roll the odometer to, I’m sure they’ll all be wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anniversary time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149273,"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":"none","_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":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_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":[],"class_list":["post-160762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wedding-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35167,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/quoth-margie-thirty-five-min.html","url_meta":{"origin":160762,"position":0},"title":"Quoth Margie: “Thirty-five min…","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 24-May-13 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Quoth Margie: \"Thirty-five minutes, we have a teen-ager.\" GAH!","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48619,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/03\/bhopal-thirty-years-later.html","url_meta":{"origin":160762,"position":1},"title":"Bhopal: Thirty Years Later","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Dec-14 12:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Three decades ago, the world's worst industrial disaster occurred in Bhopal, India, at a Union Carbide plant.But remember, kids -- industrial safety and inspections and regulations are job killers. 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