{"id":345,"date":"2011-01-13T15:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2011-02-15T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T01:16:36","slug":"from-the-brides-fathers-notebook-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"From the Bride’s Father’s Notebook – Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the next two months, mixed in with poems and events, essays, letters, observations, I’m going to publish\u00a0in\u00a0The Life Literary<\/em> a journal I kept for 15 days a little over a year ago.\u00a0 At the time, I wanted to set on paper an account of\u00a0our daughter’s wedding, not simply or even mostly a description of the events, but rather a sounding of the depth of our feelings, our reactions to it all.\u00a0 Life amuses and amazes me anyway: the coupling of rare and common, the sonorous discordant, the diamond in the straw.\u00a0 A wedding amplifies and magnifies these fascinating, joyful absurdities with a smack between the eyes and when it’s your child, at your heart, too.<\/p>\n

After a year I think back to those whirlwind moments and days with vague memories of rich food, nice clothes, some laughing, some crying, mountain peaks of remembrance surrounded these days by growing clouds of forgetting.\u00a0 I’m glad I wrote it down while it was happening.\u00a0 Maybe whoever reads it will be glad, too.<\/p>\n

For a small sense of how I was feeling and thinking about it at the time, here are some unedited notes I made trying to get the name right, or at least what I wanted it to be, for the journal:<\/p>\n

Name change \u00a0 From the Bride’s Father’s Notebook – Title? \u00a0 Working on possible titles for this motley recollection collection.\u00a0 None are quite as punchy as I’d like, yet. From the Bride’s Father’s Notebook (a bit cumbersome) The Bride’s Father’s Notebook Father of the Bride Notes Bride’s Father’s Notes Nuptual Notes Dad’s Nuptual Notes Impending Irrelevance: From the Bride’s Father’s Notebook<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the next two months, mixed in with poems and events, essays, letters, observations, I’m going to publish\u00a0in\u00a0The Life Literary a journal I kept for 15 days a little over a year ago.\u00a0 At the time, I wanted to set … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[1077,43,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}