{"id":815,"date":"2006-12-21T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T16:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/21\/the-big-1-0\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T08:30:41","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T16:30:41","slug":"the-big-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/21\/the-big-1-0","title":{"rendered":"The Big 1\u20130"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remem\u00adber see\u00ading a ser\u00admon series once titled \u201cMar\u00adriage: Clos\u00adest Thing To Heav\u00aden, Clos\u00adest Thing To Hell.\u201d Bril\u00adliant title.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago at this time I had just fin\u00adished hid\u00ading my car from my grooms\u00admen to pre\u00advent any unto\u00adward pranks and was at First Assem\u00adbly of God in Lafayette, LA get\u00adting ready to be mar\u00adried under the aus\u00adpices of Eric Treuil (who was using the author\u00adi\u00adty invest\u00aded in him by God and the state of Louisiana). <\/p>\n<p>Three quick mem\u00ado\u00adries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paula was very beau\u00adti\u00adful in her bridal dress.<\/li>\n<li>I began fid\u00adget\u00ading with my ring while still in the sanc\u00adtu\u00adary, a habit I\u2019ve con\u00adtin\u00adued to this day. I don\u2019t know why, but when\u00adev\u00ader I\u2019m thinkig about some\u00adthing I\u2019ll either spin it around on my fin\u00adger or take it off and put it back on a few times. What\u00adev\u00ader the cause, you can see me doing it on the wed\u00adding tape as we recess out of the sanc\u00adtu\u00adary.<\/li>\n<li>I had a pile of eclairs as my grooms cake cour\u00adtesy of high school bud\u00addy George Byron Noel. He\u2019s a real\u00adly good chef and my cake was deli\u00adcious (as <a href=\"http:\/\/gregpavydavis.com\/\">my broth\u00ader<\/a> can attest, since he ate approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly half of it \ud83d\ude42 ).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We head\u00aded out on a hon\u00adey\u00admoon that includ\u00aded a stop in New Orleans and cul\u00admi\u00adnat\u00aded in a stay at South\u00adern SALT (now known as the Upris\u00ading) where I will be preach\u00ading in just a few days. It\u2019s fun\u00adny how things seem to come full-cir\u00adcle some\u00adtimes.<\/p>\n<p>10 years. Much clos\u00ader to heav\u00aden than hell by my reck\u00adon\u00ading.<\/p>\n<p>Hap\u00adpy anniver\u00adsary, Paula. I\u2019d mar\u00adry you again in a heart\u00adbeat. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remem\u00adber see\u00ading a ser\u00admon series once titled \u201cMar\u00adriage: Clos\u00adest Thing To Heav\u00aden, Clos\u00adest Thing To Hell.\u201d Bril\u00adliant title. Ten years ago at this time I had just fin\u00adished hid\u00ading my car from my grooms\u00admen to pre\u00advent any unto\u00adward pranks and was at First Assem\u00adbly of God in Lafayette, LA get\u00adting ready to be mar\u00adried \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/21\/the-big-1-0\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThe Big 1\u20130\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-d9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}