{"id":6631,"date":"2026-09-07T21:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:05:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:05:50","slug":"thirty-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/2026\/09\/thirty-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirty years ago today, we got married. There were no grand plans for the day. We spent the morning at home, then decided to go out for lunch at a cafe in the next town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our romantic anniversary lunch was briefly threatened by a serious catering crisis: there was only one steak sandwich left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturally, after thirty years of marriage, I graciously let my husband have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This act of selfless devotion was made considerably easier by the fact that I prefer burgers anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My burger was delicious, hubby got his steak sandwich, and marital harmony was maintained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No champagne, roses or sweeping romantic gestures for us. Just lunch, and the same person I married thirty years ago &#8211; his face carefully pixelated in this photo to preserve his privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It feels a little sad to obscure my husband\u2019s handsome face, but at least I have the original photo, and the man, to cherish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years of marriage, marked in our usual understated way &#8211; quietly, happily, and with only a minor catering emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6639,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamjak.com\/ma2005\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}