{"id":498,"date":"2005-09-28T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2005-09-28T18:27:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T18:27:00","slug":"always-a-bridesmaid-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/always-a-bridesmaid-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"[Always a bridesmaid &#8230; for the first time]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like spare moments have been squeezed out of this week altogether. Monday I had planned to do some trip preparation in anticipation of my sojourn to M&#8217;boro\/Nashville this coming weekend, but I got called in to work. Since then it&#8217;s been all work, all the time, pretty much. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see everybody, though. It&#8217;s been too long since we all got together. The best part about the MT-Vandy game will be the hijinks that will ensue when Patrick and Jason piss off the Vandy foundation members with their profane, belligerent taunts directed at the players. But that&#8217;s how we roll. It&#8217;s always good comedy. <\/p>\n<p>My car is piled with crap (as usual) that is going to have to move if anyone plans to ride with me to Jason&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>My sister e-mailed me a day or two ago and dropped a bit of an infobomb: The wedding has been moved up to Oct. 8 (that&#8217;s less than two weeks). I fretted over having to ask for another Saturday off on such short notice, but my boss was surprisingly cool about it when I called him today. It probably just means I have to give up an off day that next week, but that&#8217;s fine by me if it means I can go to the wedding.  <\/p>\n<p>I was put in charge of designing the invitations and downloading wedding songs to make a CD. Last night I scrolled through all the &#8220;Wedding March&#8221; versions on iTunes and decided that a nice, informal acoustic guitar version would suit the occasion nicely. It&#8217;s an outdoor wedding, so I didn&#8217;t much think a pompous, giant-cathedral-echoing pipe organ piece would make much sense. I&#8217;m still tempted to use the version Queen did for the <i>Flash Gordon<\/i> soundtrack, but she&#8217;d kill me the instant she heard the electric guitars.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, I have to acquire some attire fit to wear to a wedding with a cranberry-and-white color scheme. This will be my first time ever in a wedding party, so I should probably make it count. None of my freaking friends are ever going to get married, so I may not get this chance again. <\/p>\n<p>All right, I&#8217;m off to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like spare moments have been squeezed out of this week altogether. Monday I had planned to do some trip preparation in anticipation of my sojourn to M&#8217;boro\/Nashville this coming weekend, but I got called in to work. Since then it&#8217;s been all work, all the time, pretty much. I can&#8217;t wait to see everybody, though. It&#8217;s been too long since we all got together. The best part about the MT-Vandy game will be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}