{"id":258,"date":"2015-03-02T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.WellSayIDo.com\/?p=258"},"modified":"2015-03-31T15:38:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T22:38:13","slug":"every-wedding-has-a-story-joel-and-jennifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"A Minister&#8217;s Nightmare&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You think being a wedding minister is stress-free? Consider:<\/p>\n<p>At his wedding rehearsal, Joel and I were standing at the top of the aisle, waiting for the wedding party to start practicing their processional.<\/p>\n<p>Joel turned to me and said, <em>&#8220;I remember the first time I was standing in this very spot.\u00a0 I was ten years old, and I was the Ring Bearer at my aunt&#8217;s wedding.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I smiled and replied, &#8220;What a great moment to remember!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said, <em>&#8220;Not really; it turned out kinda bad.\u00a0 Just as the ceremony started, I threw up really huge&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.WellSayIDo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NauseousChild.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-257 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.WellSayIDo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NauseousChild.jpg\" alt=\"NauseousChild\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NauseousChild.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/NauseousChild-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em>[clearboth]<\/em>Would History repeat itself? Take a guess at the only thing I could think about the next day,\u00a0as his ceremony started up&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p><em>PS: As is the case with all my ceremonies, all went smoothly, and Joel kept his composure (and everything else) under control all day!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think being a wedding minister is stress-free? Consider: At his wedding rehearsal, Joel and I were standing at the top of the aisle, waiting for the wedding party to start practicing their processional. Joel turned to me and said, &#8220;I remember the first time I was standing in this very spot.\u00a0 I was ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richs-blog","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsayido.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}