{"id":2090,"date":"2009-02-14T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realphotography.com\/blog\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2009-02-14T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T18:22:00","slug":"seven-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/seven-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nic and I are celebrating seven years today!\u00a0 Seven years ago I was getting prepped by my sorority roommates for our first date.\u00a0 My outfit was pieced together from three different wardrobes, my makeup handled by two people far more skilled than I, and first date instruction that basically culminated with the standard &#8220;be yourself, but not so much yourself&#8221; line.\u00a0 And then we did some dancing around the room and singing (a la Meredith and Cristina except way before they ever did it on Grey&#8217;s Anatomy) to make time pass until we heard over the intercom, &#8220;Traci Cooper, you have a <em>visitor<\/em> in the foyer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Visitor&#8221; is code in the greek system for BOY.\u00a0 If it had been a girl, or my dad, it would have been GUEST.<\/p>\n<p>I about had a heart attack.\u00a0 My friend Amanda (the Cupid in this story who spent two months setting us up) practically pushed me down the stairs.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m still grateful for that push.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p>Here we are then, in one of our <strong>13<\/strong> wedding pictures, and now with our chubkin.\u00a0\u00a0 (Check out my rad sunburn in the wedding shot&#8211;that&#8217;s what you get for getting married on Day 5 of your Carribean elopement!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2092 aligncenter\" title=\"7yearsb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/blog-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/7yearsb.jpg\" alt=\"7yearsb\" width=\"777\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Lesson I learned when putting this storyboard together&#8211;we need better pics of us together!\u00a0 This is the only pic with the both of us for the year!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, happy anniversary, Nicolas!\u00a0 Here&#8217;s to the next seven!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nic and I are celebrating seven years today!\u00a0 Seven years ago I was getting prepped by my sorority roommates for our first date.\u00a0 My outfit was pieced together from three different wardrobes, my makeup handled by two people far more skilled than I, and first date instruction that basically culminated with the standard &#8220;be yourself, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.needlesandapen.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}