{"id":1575,"date":"2012-03-20T09:55:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/1575"},"modified":"2017-05-10T08:12:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T14:12:02","slug":"why-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/1575","title":{"rendered":"Why get married"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Jason and I decided to get married, it wasn&#8217;t because we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. We knew that without needing paperwork. Besides making some family members happier about our sin-livin&#8217;, I wanted to get married for one reason: a KitchenAid mixer.<\/p>\n<p>Once we sent out the announcements, we went to Target to make a gift registry*. After choosing some modest additions to our existing belongings, we went to see the mixer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the plot twist: I got cold feet &#8212; about the mixer. It&#8217;s so expensive, and we didn&#8217;t *need* it. So I chickened out.<\/p>\n<p>Four years of lamenting later, this came in the mail:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120320-115345.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120320-115345.jpg\" alt=\"20120320-115345.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here it sits, happily ever after:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120320-115507.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/20120320-115507.jpg\" alt=\"20120320-115507.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>* people will buy you gifts if you want them to or not, so a registry means no guessing on their part, or returning on yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jason and I decided to get married, it wasn&#8217;t because we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. We knew that without needing paperwork. Besides making some family members happier about our sin-livin&#8217;, I wanted to get married for one reason: a KitchenAid mixer. Once we sent out the announcements, we went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[343],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-sonya-fact","tag-mawige"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}