{"id":9125,"date":"2006-02-14T07:23:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T14:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/02\/14\/heart.html"},"modified":"2006-02-14T07:23:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T14:23:35","slug":"heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/14\/heart.html","title":{"rendered":"Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/heart.png\" style=\"width: 182px; height: 188px; border: 0\" alt=\"\" class=\"right\" \/>I love Margie very much.  Amidst the inevitable grumbles and frictions between any two people in the same household, the sheer <strong><em>romance <\/em><\/strong>of my life with her, after going-on-eleven years of marriage, continues to astound me, whether in a word, a sigh, a touch, a glance, a giggle, a kiss-ping from across the room &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am just too damned lucky for words.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Margie very much. Amidst the inevitable grumbles and frictions between any two people in the same household, the sheer romance of my life with her, after going-on-eleven years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-and-marriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136034,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/04\/doing-the-dishes.html","url_meta":{"origin":9125,"position":0},"title":"Doing the Dishes","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Apr-18 11:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently, in a society that still leans heavily into women taking care of all the household stuff, whether or not they are working a paying job, who does the dishes is a major predictor for marital stress or harmony. 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