{"id":1783,"date":"2016-06-08T04:35:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2016-06-08T04:35:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T11:35:02","slug":"a-charmed-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"A Charmed Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15017.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1784\" \/><\/a>Movers will be here today to take our furniture to a storage unit where it will sit until the new place is ready. So tonight Char and I will sleep on a mattress in the living room of an empty house.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve done this before (if you see a trend here, it seems we seniors have always done something before). In the fall of 1968 we spent our first night together in similar circumstances in a rent house on North 28th Street. Now, the spot is a parking lot just south of the WTAMU Activity Center.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could go back in time and visit with the young man in that house. He couldn\u2019t believe a gal so beautiful had said \u201cI will\u201d and \u201cI do.\u201d I\u2019d tell him that the beauty ran deep and had staying power, and that he was as lucky as he imagined himself.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019d say what I will say to myself tonight\u2014that I\u2019m living a charmed life with this lady and I don\u2019t want to  waste a moment of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movers will be here today to take our furniture to a storage unit where it will sit until the new place is ready. So tonight Char and I will sleep on a mattress in the living room of an empty house. We\u2019ve done this before (if you see a trend here, it seems we seniors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}