{"id":1488,"date":"2007-02-14T19:20:18","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T19:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2007-02-14T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T19:20:18","slug":"love_conquers_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Love Conquers All"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would be easy for a journalist to descend into mawkishness when writing about the recent marriage between a pretty Midwestern woman and a soldier who was severely burned by an Iraqi suicide bomber, but this article<\/a> from the London Times manages to remain matter-of-fact. The reporter has enough sense to get out of the way and let the couple tell their story. Here’s the photo<\/a> that accompanies the piece. <\/p>\n

And congratulations to my sister and her boyfriend, who just announced their engagement. I knew that one of my siblings would fall off the bandwagon of singlehood eventually. So, it looks like I’ll be needing a date for sometime in January 2009. I mean, if you’re not busy or anything. It’s totally cool if you can’t go. I’ll totally understand. But I just thought, y’know, it might be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would be easy for a journalist to descend into mawkishness when writing about the recent marriage between a pretty Midwestern woman and a soldier who was severely burned by an Iraqi suicide bomber, but this article from the London Times manages to remain matter-of-fact. The reporter has enough sense to get out of the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-o0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}