{"id":5004,"date":"2018-06-28T21:47:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2018-06-28T21:47:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T01:47:48","slug":"on-a-personal-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/on-a-personal-note\/","title":{"rendered":"ON A PERSONAL NOTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Evil Princess and I were married last week.\u00a0 I hope you\u2019ll be happy for us.<\/p>\n<p>It was a simple ceremony in Chicagoland. She\u2019s a native of Chicago (I maintain I rescued her, though she still says \u201ckidnapped\u201d) and since we\u2019re both Second Amendment rights activists, it pleased us all the more to do it in \u201cconquered territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was an open carry wedding, highly unusual in those environs but legal there on private property. If our kind of folks did the social register thing, the newspaper announcement might have read, \u201cThe bride wore a Glock 19 9mm, and the groom wore a Smith &amp; Wesson 1911 .45 ACP, accessorized by a .38 Special Smith &amp; Wesson Model 442.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one really noticed. One reason might be that we both wore black. (Why bride <em>and <\/em>groom would wear black is a matter we\u2019ll leave to speculation for now.)\u00a0 The guns and holsters were black too. They blend in rather discreetly.<\/p>\n<p>The officiator didn\u2019t seem to notice the hardware. Neither did the mother of the bride, but I maintain this it was because her shotgun blocked her view of my hip\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Wedding_Blog.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Wedding_Blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Wedding_Blog.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Wedding_Blog-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Wedding_Blog-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evil Princess and I were married last week.\u00a0 I hope you\u2019ll be happy for us. It was a simple ceremony in Chicagoland. She\u2019s a native of Chicago (I maintain I rescued her, though she still says \u201ckidnapped\u201d) and since we\u2019re both Second Amendment rights activists, it pleased us all the more to do it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}