{"id":1685,"date":"2010-07-18T11:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2010-07-18T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T15:48:31","slug":"better-than-a-shoe-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Better Than a Shoe Blog&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I promised a shoe blog &#8211; but you&#8217;re not going to get one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is better.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1686\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1686\" title=\"We did it!\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_1-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"We did it!\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_1-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We did it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to come clean.<\/p>\n<p>After a whirlwind courtship of just 17 years, Webmaster John and I were married on Friday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He proposed over a kebab just before a Suzanne Vega concert a month ago. I kid you not! It was very romantic in an off-beat kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding was the greatest fun.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a long, long way from the 40th floor of a half-built television station in Hong Kong &#8211; where John and I first met.<\/p>\n<p>The bar-b-q we held on Saturday to celebrate the release of Girl Racers thus morphed into a surprise wedding party &#8211; the surprise was for our guests, none of whom knew anything about the wedding.\u00a0 It was such a hard secret to keep.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1687\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_gang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1687 \" title=\"Breaking the news to my writer chums\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_gang-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Breaking the news to my writer chums\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_gang-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_gang.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breaking the news to my writer chums<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The looks on their faces when we told them was priceless. What Fun! Just like a scene from a romantic novel (vbg).<\/p>\n<p>It was such a fabulous two days &#8211; filled with family and friends. I loved every minute.<\/p>\n<p>And yes &#8211; there were shoes involved.\u00a0 Did you really think for one moment that I wouldn\u2019t get a pair of fabulous shoes for my wedding?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1690\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1690\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_shoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1690\" title=\"Wedding shoes\" src=\"http:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_shoes-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding shoes\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_shoes-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/janetgover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100718_wedding_shoes.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1690\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding shoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I promised a shoe blog &#8211; but you&#8217;re not going to get one&#8230; This is better. It&#8217;s time to come clean. After a whirlwind courtship of just 17 years, Webmaster&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g6jm-rb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/janetgover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}