{"id":1562,"date":"2010-02-14T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2010-05-12T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T18:39:10","slug":"romance-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2010\/02\/14\/romance-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Romancing The Stoic (Humor Column)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night hubby Mark reminded me about a humor column I  wrote about a romance-impaired woman (me) marrying a romantic man like Mark.  He thinks it&#8217;s the perfect column to post on Valentines Day, so here&#8217;s how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/romancingthestoic.html\">Romancing The Stoic<\/a> begins:<\/p>\n<p>Romancing The Stoic<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve lost power!&#8221; I shrieked, as the lights went out and a Brahms concerto stopped mid-cadenza. &#8220;It&#8217;s okay,&#8221; my husband Mark said, in a futile attempt to calm me down. For already I was ransacking the house in search of flashlights, candles, matches and batteries. And as usual, I&#8217;d hidden them away in a safe and elusive spot. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry,&#8221; Mark said, when he finally had my attention. &#8220;We&#8217;ll bundle up in front of the fireplace. We&#8217;ll eat by candlelight, sip wine, and talk. It&#8217;ll be nice. You won&#8217;t even miss the light.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That episode, which climaxed in a delightful, albeit light-impaired evening, illustrates our differences in the romance department. A quick bit of history: More than thirty years ago Mark proposed on his knees in the middle of the street, while I rushed to brush off his pants. His encore the next night was to supplement his weekly floral offering with a pair of crystal candlesticks. I, of course, fretted about their price. <\/p>\n<p>Mark went through with the wedding, despite my apparent lack of the romance gene. Perhaps he felt he had sentiment enough for two. Or maybe he thought I&#8217;d come around some day &#8212; that my romantic spirit was merely submerged, just waiting to be tapped.  &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/romancingthestoic.html\">Romancing The Stoic continues here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night hubby Mark reminded me about a humor column I wrote about a romance-impaired woman (me) marrying a romantic man like Mark. He thinks it&#8217;s the perfect column to post on Valentines Day, so here&#8217;s how Romancing The Stoic begins: Romancing The Stoic By Madeleine Begun Kane &#8220;We&#8217;ve lost power!&#8221; I shrieked, as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,49,13,78,2,110],"tags":[1088,4902,4976,1086,1085,206,1087],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-the-sexes","category-behavior-personality","category-family-humor","category-humor-columns","category-marriage-humor","category-romance-humor","tag-husbands-wives","tag-marriage-humor","tag-romance-humor","tag-romantic-husbands","tag-stoics","tag-valentines-day","tag-wedding-proposal-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","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=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}