{"id":793,"date":"2008-02-20T20:56:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T20:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/15_years.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:30","slug":"15_years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/15_years.shtml","title":{"rendered":"15 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>15 years seems like a long time.<br \/>\nWhen I was 10, it seemed like an eternity.  Next year seemed like a lifetime away.<br \/>\nToday it seems like both forever and an instant.<br \/>\n15 years ago today this amazing woman did the most inexplicable thing.  She married me.<br \/>\nIt seems like only yesterday that I was falling in love with her, and yet I can&#8217;t remember a time that she wasn&#8217;t right beside me.<br \/>\nThese days, I frequently don&#8217;t feel like much of a catch.  I&#8217;m becoming grumpy &#038; irritable all to often.<br \/>\nYet for some reason she still loves me.  And when I come home in a foul mood and I see her smile at me &#8211; it&#8217;s OK after all.<br \/>\nIf grace can be summed up in human action, this is it, that a woman such as this would love one such as me.<br \/>\nThanks for 15 years honey, here&#8217;s to many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 years seems like a long time. When I was 10, it seemed like an eternity. Next year seemed like a lifetime away. 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