{"id":3032,"date":"2013-07-25T02:23:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2013-07-25T02:23:46","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T07:23:46","slug":"10-years-and-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/3032","title":{"rendered":"10 years and my love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a plan to write all sorts of blog posts recently. And then&#8230;well, I had to dive into the 4 youth conferences I&#8217;m working on and then something else really big happened in my life and suddenly it was the end of July and I hadn&#8217;t written anything in nearly 2 months.<\/p>\n<p>On June 28, 2003, I wrote my <a href=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/531\" target=\"_blank\">first post<\/a> on the current incarnation of this blog. It was about me putting food in my purse. Somehow that is fitting. <strong>This June was 10 continuous years of writing here. A decade of thoughts.<\/strong> It is hard to believe. I&#8217;ve been blogging since 2001 but I have been consistently writing here for such a long time, I can&#8217;t imagine ever shutting this down. I have to thank my friend Paul (and his family) for hosting this blog for so many years. I couldn&#8217;t have done it myself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But now for the really big news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In a few short days, I will be getting married to Shea.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"me and Shea by Sholeh, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/9363230612\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"me and Shea\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3687\/9363230612_2717beece7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"me and Shea by Sholeh, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/9363165440\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"me and Shea\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2829\/9363165440_9913d62776.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I keep trying to find words to explain all of this and having a hard time doing so. We met last year and discovered this love between us through lots of conversations, prayer, walks in parks, and cooking together. Now I am getting married to a kind, patient, loving, funny man and am overjoyed to be doing so. I don&#8217;t like getting too personal on my blog most of the time, and as much as I want to write <em>everything<\/em> here, I am keeping some things off the internet. But this is just too much not to share. It is a little surreal sometimes!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here we go, on our grand adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a plan to write all sorts of blog posts recently. And then&#8230;well, I had to dive into the 4 youth conferences I&#8217;m working on and then something else really big happened in my life and suddenly it was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3038,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}