{"id":10859,"date":"2013-04-03T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=10859"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T19:25:28","slug":"days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130403-10859.htm","title":{"rendered":"Days Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than wanting to blog, having a half a dozen unformed blogging ideas, and not having the time or the energy to fully develop any of them.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, I&#8217;d rather like to blog my reactions to <i>The Hunger Games<\/i> (Oh, is that old news by now?) or talk about some interesting parallels between Exodus 32ish and Acts 2 or tell you about the process of changing my name (Except that most of you have probably already experienced that for yourself) or post pictures of my wedding and honeymoon or tell you about how I&#8217;ve been spending my spare time at work drooling over the Wichita library collection (and eagerly anticipating getting my library card this Friday!)<\/p>\n<p>Without the motivation to develop the above themes but with a desire to get SOMETHING on bekahcubed, my mind started flipping through tired topics.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought of the story I told some questioners last night&#8211;a story about a fast-moving relationship.<\/p>\n<p>I almost wished it were the seventh, so I could write an anniversary post. And then I got curious. How many days has this been going?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.convertunits.com\/dates\/\">handy little calculator<\/a>, I discovered that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>270<\/b> days ago, I read a Facebook message from a friend <a href=\"blog\/2012\/20121102-10432.htm\">offering to set me up<\/a> with Daniel Garcia<\/p>\n<p><b>268<\/b> days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20121103-10444.htm\">I said my friend could introduce us<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>267<\/b> days ago, Daniel and I became Facebook &#8220;friends&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>266<\/b> days ago, Daniel sent me his first letter<\/p>\n<p><b>265<\/b> days ago, I sent Daniel my first letter<\/p>\n<p><b>231<\/b> days ago, Daniel and I had <a href=\"blog\/2012\/20121105-10452.htm\">our first phone conversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>217<\/b> days ago, I realized <a href=\"blog\/2012\/20121107-10493.htm\">I was probably in love<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>210<\/b> days ago, <a href=\"blog\/2012\/20121110-10506.htm\">Daniel asked me on a date<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>207<\/b> days ago, <a href=\"blog\/2012\/20121113-10542.htm\">Daniel told me he loved me<\/a> and we became boyfriend and girlfriend<\/p>\n<p><b>194<\/b> days ago, <a href=\"blog\/2013\/20130123-10686.htm\">Daniel and I met in person<\/a> for the first time<\/p>\n<p><b>193<\/b> days ago, <a href=\"blog\/2013\/20130211-10736.htm\">Daniel met my parents<\/a> (and I met his dad)<\/p>\n<p><b>180<\/b> days ago, <a href=\"blog\/2013\/20130225-10742.htm\">we had a second date<\/a> in Kansas City<\/p>\n<p><b>176<\/b> days ago, we decided to get married<\/p>\n<p><b>174<\/b> days ago, we told our parents that we had decided to get married<\/p>\n<p><b>172<\/b> days ago, we met each others&#8217; families and told them that we were engaged<\/p>\n<p><b>159<\/b> days ago, I visited Daniel in Wichita for the first time<\/p>\n<p><b>97<\/b> days ago, I moved to Wichita<\/p>\n<p><b>86<\/b> days ago, I started a new job in Wichita<\/p>\n<p><b>25<\/b> days ago, I married Daniel Garcia<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it. A summary of my entire acquaintance with Daniel Garcia. <\/p>\n<p>270 days ago, I became aware of his existence. 245 days later, I became his wife. <\/p>\n<p><b>Just days ago.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than wanting to blog, having a half a dozen unformed blogging ideas, and not having the time or the energy to fully develop any of them. In my case, I&#8217;d rather like to blog my reactions to The Hunger Games (Oh, is that old news by now?) or talk about some &#8230; <a title=\"Days Ago\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130403-10859.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Days Ago<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10865,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10859\/revisions\/10865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}