This week, my next-door neighbors, Martha and Carroll, celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary. What can you say other than \u201cWow!\u201d<\/p>\n
They are great people \u2013 sweet, kind, caring, sharp as a tack, and not self-absorbed. And not only that, but they are interesting, too. They\u2019ve lived in their house since 1942 and are the unofficial neighborhood historians. Since they don\u2019t get out much, their focus is on what is happening along our street. And they\u2019ve drawn me in to their attitude. Instead of not knowing who my neighbors are, I know them and actually care about them \u2013 kind of a throw back to an earlier, pre-television and internet blogging way of life.<\/p>\n
They are inspirational. I want to be like them. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll see my 70th wedding anniversary (I didn\u2019t following the first rule to having a long marriage \u2013 marry young), but I have hope for seeing, and enjoying, my 50th. They are what growing old should be like.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s to you, Martha and Carroll. Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week, my next-door neighbors, Martha and Carroll, celebrated their seventieth wedding anniversary. What can you say other than \u201cWow!\u201d They are great people \u2013 sweet, kind, caring, sharp as a tack, and not self-absorbed. And not only that, but they are interesting, too. They\u2019ve lived in their house since 1942 and are the unofficial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithoguru.com\/life\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}