{"id":3766,"date":"2011-07-12T06:51:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2011-07-12T06:51:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:51:27","slug":"from-the-brides-fathers-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3766","title":{"rendered":"From the Bride&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The series of essays called &#8220;From the Bride&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Notebook,&#8221; are my perspectives on the swirl of emotions and events surrounding our daughter\u2019s wedding.\u00a0 When she got married at the end of 2009, I kept a journal for the two weeks around the great event.\u00a0 I  wanted to set on paper an account of those days that was not just a description of the events, but my (and our) feelings and reactions to it.\u00a0 Life&#8217;s odd contrasts amuse and amaze  me.\u00a0 I like 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\u2019s your child, at your heart, too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"From the Bride's Father's Notebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?cat=40\" target=\"_blank\">From the Bride&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Notebook (All the articles)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The series of essays called &#8220;From the Bride&#8217;s Father&#8217;s Notebook,&#8221; are my perspectives on the swirl of emotions and events surrounding our daughter\u2019s wedding.\u00a0 When she got married at the end of 2009, I kept a journal for the two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[564,566,565,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766"}],"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=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}