{"id":736,"date":"2007-10-31T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/and_she_said_ye.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:32","slug":"and_she_said_ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/and_she_said_ye.shtml","title":{"rendered":"And She Said Yes &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15 years ago, on a chilly Cincinnati evening, while thousands of little ones were running from door to door looking for tricks or treats, I knelt down (right about <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;time=&#038;date=&#038;ttype=&#038;q=Cincinnati,+Hamilton,+Ohio,+United+States&#038;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#038;sspn=56.375007,107.753906&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;cd=1&#038;geocode=0,39.106470,-84.504760&#038;ll=39.098863,-84.502298&#038;spn=0.001709,0.003288&#038;t=k&#038;z=19&#038;om=1\">here<\/a>) and asked this amazing small woman who had flipped my world around to do the unthinkable &#8211; spend the rest of her life next to me.<br \/>\nThe crazy woman said yes.<br \/>\nAnd the roller coaster began.  My life would never be the same, the twists and turns were unexpected &#8211; and joyous.  Who knew there was so much out there that I would never have seen.  If I could, I&#8217;d do it all over again.  Twice.<br \/>\nThe funny thing is that I asked her to share my journey, but it&#8217;s been me sharing hers that has been the blessing.<br \/>\nThanks Honey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 years ago, on a chilly Cincinnati evening, while thousands of little ones were running from door to door looking for tricks or treats, I knelt down (right about here)<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/and_she_said_ye.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And She Said Yes &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>And She Said Yes ... - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/and_she_said_ye.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"And She Said Yes ... - 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