{"id":2393,"date":"2008-10-19T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T18:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2008-10-26T01:44:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T08:44:04","slug":"meeting-great-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Meeting great people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bride and groom were amazing people, everyone said.  I had never met them, only tagging along with <a href=\"http:\/\/jtblog.typepad.com\/jtblog\/\">Joe<\/a> to an event where I didn&#8217;t know anybody.<\/p>\n<p><i>He is so sweet,<\/i> another friend repeatedly said.  <i>I have known him since he was 8.  He saved me.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The stories, the amazing stories were told over and over again.  Of the family&#8217;s pride, the parents and strength.  And the groom finding a bride cross-country who was as accomplished as he was.  As adventurous.  And daring.<\/p>\n<p>When I first was introduced to the groom and bride nearing the end of the reception, I was almost afraid that I would ruin the image of amazement and success\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat in a shake of a hand and greeting I would through my own faltering ways find their glaring faults.  But I shook their hands in silent awe as they continued greeting the guests who were smiling in joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bride and groom were amazing people, everyone said. I had never met them, only tagging along with Joe to an event where I didn&#8217;t know anybody. He is so sweet, another friend repeatedly said. I have known him since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2393\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}