{"id":4532,"date":"2016-02-14T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2016-02-14T14:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:10:57","slug":"thirty-four-years-kissing-merri-rudd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/thirty-four-years-kissing-merri-rudd\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty-four years kissing Merri Rudd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-<ins>four<\/ins> years ago today, Valentine\u2019s Day, 1982, Merri Rudd and I shared our first kiss. It was the morning after the first Valentine\u2019s Day Pajama Party at Preston Road. <\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #dd8484\" color=\"#0000ff\">Happy Anniversary, Darling! xox, mjh<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/DSC05701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"Valentine&#039;s Day card drawn by mjh for MR in 1987\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Valentine&#039;s Day card drawn by mjh for MR in 1987\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/DSC05701_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"454\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll be your man.   <br \/>I\u2019ll understand.    <br \/>Do my best    <br \/>to take good care of you.    <br \/>You\u2019ll be my queen.    <br \/>I\u2019ll be your king.    <br \/>And I\u2019ll be your lover, too.\u201d    <br \/>&#8212; Van the Man Morrison<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/cupid-and-whatshername.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px;border-left: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top: 0px;border-right: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" title=\"cupid and whatshername\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cupid and whatshername\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/2012\/02\/cupid-and-whatshername_thumb.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"484\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also <a title=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/30-years-ago\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/30-years-ago\/\">http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/30-years-ago\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-four years ago today, Valentine\u2019s Day, 1982, Merri Rudd and I shared our first kiss. It was the morning after the first Valentine\u2019s Day Pajama Party at Preston Road. Happy Anniversary, Darling! xox, mjh \u201cI\u2019ll be your man. I\u2019ll understand. Do my best to take good care of you. You\u2019ll be my queen. I\u2019ll be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/thirty-four-years-kissing-merri-rudd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thirty-four years kissing Merri Rudd<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit","tag-merri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}