{"id":5595,"date":"2012-10-20T20:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T01:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2012-10-20T20:58:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T01:58:32","slug":"the-end-of-date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Date Night."},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when we were first married, Saturday night was “date night”.\u00a0 And while we couldn’t afford to go out, we could afford to purchase a steak and rent a video.\u00a0 And so we did.\u00a0 And, for over 30 years, we carried on this tradition every Saturday night.\u00a0 And, when we\u00a0 got older and the kids were on their own, we still held Saturday night as date night.\u00a0 This was our weekly affirmation of our love and commitment for each other.<\/p>\n

And, now that Kathy has passed, I have tried to carry on this tradition.\u00a0 Only now, it is in remembrance of what once was.<\/p>\n

But, I have found that the steak no longer tastes good.\u00a0 And, no matter how hard I try, I can only eat a couple of bites and then I just throw the rest away.<\/p>\n

I guess that I will turn Saturday night into soup night, at least it will be cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when we were first married, Saturday night was “date night”.\u00a0 And while we couldn’t afford to go out, we could afford to purchase a steak and rent a video.\u00a0 And so we did.\u00a0 And, for over 30 years, we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-1sf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}