{"id":154,"date":"2015-04-07T18:08:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2015-05-22T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T20:00:42","slug":"happy-50th-anniversary-mom-and-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Happy 50th Anniversary, Mom and Dad!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On April 5, 2015, my Mom and Dad celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. \u00a0Some of you know that I love to write poetry (if you read much of this blog, you KNOW that I do). \u00a0I wrote this poem in honor of Mom and Dad for this awesome accomplishment. \u00a0 I am very proud of you both and happy beyond description to see love demonstrated in our home as I grew up. \u00a0Too often, kids are not able to see this happen today and I am fortunate and blessed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Happy 50th Anniversary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Fifty years is a very long time by any measure.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easy to see that it&#8217;s each other you&#8217;ve treasured.<br \/>\nTrouble has come and gone for many decades,<br \/>\nBut you held close the vows you had made.<br \/>\nYou struggled together and rejoiced as well<br \/>\nLove and devotion were priority, it&#8217;s easy to tell.<br \/>\nThe two of you have spent your lives as one<br \/>\nThrough good times and bad, you&#8217;ve not been undone.<br \/>\nFor most of your lives, you&#8217;ve had children to raise<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t always easy, but you still taught us to praise.<br \/>\nAnd so, Mom and Dad, what I&#8217;ve been trying to say:<br \/>\nI wish you the happiest of anniversaries, on this, your most special day!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KTngabobc.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-155\" src=\"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/KTngabobc-300x209.gif\" alt=\"KTngabobc\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 5, 2015, my Mom and Dad celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. \u00a0Some of you know that I love to write poetry (if you read much of this blog, you KNOW that I do). \u00a0I wrote this poem in honor of Mom and Dad for this awesome accomplishment. \u00a0 I am very proud of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Happy 50th Anniversary!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,30],"tags":[31,32,17],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-personal","category-poetry","tag-christian-living","tag-family","tag-grace"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Mji6-2u","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musings.butchevans.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}