{"id":108,"date":"2007-02-13T21:07:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T01:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/02\/13\/surmounting-marriage\/"},"modified":"2011-02-15T03:03:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T07:03:44","slug":"surmounting-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/02\/13\/surmounting-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Surmounting Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surmounting Marriage<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Before agreeing to marry my husband Mark, I asked him the usual questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do you know what a hamper is and have you ever actually used one?<\/li>\n<li>Do you spend weekends sprawled in front of a sports-spewing screen, devouring couch potato chips?<\/li>\n<li>Are your parents likely to drive me to drink?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Mark told the appropriate fibs, I pretended to believe him, and several months later we wed. But soon after the wedding, I realized I&#8217;d forgotten to ask the most important question of all: When you see a mountain, do you get an irresistible urge to do something stupid?\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/surmountingmarriage.html\">Surmounting Marriage is continued here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surmounting Marriage By Madeleine Begun Kane Before agreeing to marry my husband Mark, I asked him the usual questions: Do you know what a hamper is and have you ever actually used one? Do you spend weekends sprawled in front of a sports-spewing screen, devouring couch potato chips? Are your parents likely to drive me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,37,78,25,2,20,30,16,19,6,34],"tags":[1799,1800,1797,1798],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-the-sexes","category-fashion-humor","category-humor-columns","category-leisure-time-humor","category-marriage-humor","category-outdoors-humor","category-recreation-humor","category-relationship-humor","category-sports-humor","category-travel-humor","category-vacation-humor","tag-husband-wife-relationship-humor","tag-marriage-satire","tag-mountain-climbing","tag-outdoor-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4556,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}