{"id":945,"date":"2017-07-14T06:32:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T10:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/?p=945"},"modified":"2017-07-14T06:32:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T10:32:54","slug":"17-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/14\/17-years\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/14\/17-years\/wedingfalls1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-946\" src=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wedingfalls1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wedingfalls1.jpg 349w, https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wedingfalls1-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n17 years ago today,<br \/>\nI said &#8220;I do.&#8221;<br \/>\nPopular culture says I should have been nervous.<br \/>\nReady to flee.<br \/>\nAfraid of the &#8220;ball and chain.&#8221;<br \/>\nI was never so sure of anything,<br \/>\nI knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.<br \/>\nFor almost 16 years,<br \/>\nThrough the sickness and the health,<br \/>\n(mostly sickness)<br \/>\nI never stopped feeling that way.<br \/>\nI never regretted my vow.<br \/>\nI wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.<br \/>\nInstead, you spent the rest of your life with me.<br \/>\nI miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 years ago today, I said &#8220;I do.&#8221; Popular culture says I should have been nervous. Ready to flee. Afraid of the &#8220;ball and chain.&#8221; I was never so sure of anything, I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. For almost 16 years, Through the sickness and the health, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[42,3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-photo","category-photo","tag-kelli"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wedingfalls1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NYym-ff","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":880,"url":"https:\/\/aaronbsmith.com\/photos\/2017\/06\/19\/things-i-miss\/","url_meta":{"origin":945,"position":0},"title":"Things I Miss","author":"Aaron Smith","date":"2017-06-19","format":false,"excerpt":"The slight chuckle you'd give when I said something stupid that you invariably thought was sweet. 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