{"id":2312,"date":"2011-04-11T21:41:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T01:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6252011.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2011-09-07T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T04:13:00","slug":"man-at-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/man-at-shower\/","title":{"rendered":"Man At Shower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was a man at a bridal shower this past weekend, which, I&#8217;m told, isn&#8217;t totally unheard of. (Yes, I was invited.) I walked in and this big group of women was laughing. Instantly I wondered if my fly was open or if I had mis-buttoned my shirt. No, it wasn&#8217;t that. I had arrived at the tail-end of trivia. Questions that I had willingly surrendered answers to without knowing what I was getting myself into.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsey and I were seated at the front of the group, so that we could open gifts in front of everyone and nod at the gift givers and mouth, &#8216;Thank you&#8217; in her direction. This sounded like a great idea &#8211; like having Christmas morning to yourself, uninterrupted by siblings or parents opening gifts. However, rarely am I forced to open lingerie in front of a crowd on Christmas morning. As soon as I saw the familiar dark and light pink striped box, I handed it to Lindsey. Here, honey, you can deal with this! My grandma was literally ten feet away. Her grandma, too.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well, it&#8217;s fun! That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re getting married! To push the boundaries and move up up and away in life. On a final note, it was cool to see many of the wonderful women that Lindsey has had in her life while growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was a man at a bridal shower this past weekend, which, I&#8217;m told, isn&#8217;t totally unheard of. (Yes, I was invited.) I walked in and this big group of women was laughing. Instantly I wondered if my fly was open or if I had mis-buttoned my shirt. No, it wasn&#8217;t that. I had arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,984],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-experiences","category-our-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}