{"id":85,"date":"2006-09-20T10:57:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2006-09-20T10:57:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T14:57:58","slug":"wouldnt-want-it-any-other-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Wouldn&#8217;t want it any other way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sort of mind-blowing to me to think that in less than a month, I will be a married man.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird to take those words which have, until now, always been directed outward and at-ward, and turn the arrow around. I will be a husband. I will have a wife.<\/p>\n<p>And the thing is, I&#8217;m ready to be married. The concept and\/or institution of marriage (with or without a capital M) doesn&#8217;t scare me one bit. I have found the person I want to spend the rest of my life with and, like Billy said, [when you find that person] &#8220;you want the rest of your life to start right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is not to say their aren&#8217;t fears. Not of the marriage itself, of course. As Emily put it, &#8220;I&#8217;m more worried that the day itself goes smoothly than I am about the next 50 years of my life.&#8221; I feel the same. No, my fears are the same fears I&#8217;ve had all my life. Of the unknown, of the future. But, and here&#8217;s the sweetest thing of all, knowing who I&#8217;m marrying and the step I&#8217;m about to take sort of dulls the sharp edges of those fears. The answers to questions yet unasked are still out there to be found, but I can&#8217;t think of a better person to help me, help us, find them.<\/p>\n<p>So, you know, I&#8217;ve got that going for me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all awesome and new and different and mind-boggling all at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t want it any other way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sort of mind-blowing to me to think that in less than a month, I will be a married man. It&#8217;s weird to take those words which have, until now, always been directed outward and at-ward, and turn the arrow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/?p=85\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nerdhut.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}