{"id":4326,"date":"2020-10-27T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2020-10-27T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:54:09","slug":"is-this-what-you-thought-married-life-would-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/10\/27\/is-this-what-you-thought-married-life-would-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This What You Thought Married Life Would Be Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cIs this what you thought married life would be like?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The first time Ann asked me that was at a church wedding, with me holding our three-month-old as he filled his diaper. Excrement slowly seeped down into my suit jacket sleeve.<\/p>\n<p>The question was always asked facetiously: Ann\u2019s way of finding humor in challenging situations (little league games, parent-teacher conferences, prom night). It helped. We always smiled and, sometime later, laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, married thirty-eight years, with grandkids and happily retired, she asks me again as we sit together at dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling, I answer, \u201cOh yes&#8230;even better than I thought.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Guest Contributor Mike Nolan <\/p>\n<p>Mike is a freelance writer living happily ever after in Port Angeles, WA, USA. Mike is the author of the forthcoming memoir My Second Education, and has a web presence at mikenolanstoryteller.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIs this what you thought married life would be like?\u201d The first time Ann asked me that was at a church wedding, with me holding our three-month-old as he filled his diaper. Excrement slowly seeped down into my suit jacket sleeve. The question was always asked facetiously: Ann\u2019s way of finding humor in challenging situations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1738,9545,338,9546,8976,3234,3259,41,7545,1354,9543,9542,9549,6676,3488,5742,9548,9547,9544,1376],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-church","tag-diaper","tag-dinner","tag-excrement","tag-first-time","tag-games","tag-grandkids","tag-guest-contributor","tag-humor","tag-little-league","tag-married-life","tag-mike-nolan","tag-parent-teacher-conference","tag-prom-night","tag-question","tag-situations","tag-sleeve","tag-suit-jacket","tag-three-month-old","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}