{"id":323,"date":"2008-01-02T22:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2008-01-02T22:46:49","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T04:46:49","slug":"you-dont-expect-to-witness-this-sort-of-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t expect to witness this sort of thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter came over this evening, and we went to dinner together. On the way, we passed by the Oriental Theater (link on the right). The marquee read, &#8220;Carolyn, will you marry me.&#8221; Under the marquee was a nicely-dressed young woman with a bouquet of flowers and an astonished look, with a young man down on one knee in front of her. Very nice. If there&#8217;d been a place to park, I&#8217;d have stopped to congratulate them.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming, of course, she accepted. We didn&#8217;t take long enough driving by to see, although I presume she did accept. There&#8217;s just something about a production of that magnitude that makes it difficult to turn down. Plus, the guy would have to be seriously deluded to try that without a serious expectation of acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad I didn&#8217;t have a camera with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My daughter came over this evening, and we went to dinner together. On the way, we passed by the Oriental Theater (link on the right). The marquee read, &#8220;Carolyn, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}