{"id":381,"date":"2005-12-26T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T02:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2005-12-26T18:18:54","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T02:18:54","slug":"a-christmas-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/a-christmas-proposal\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 12AM this morning as Grace and I prepared to watch a DVD, we got a surprise Christmas <i>present<\/i> from Chee-hoi, one of the last remaining bachelors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn Dec 25, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Cheehoi Chua wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I proposed to Fiona and she said yes! She&#8217;s moving to bayarea next month!<br \/>\nwoohoo!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\ud83d\ude2f <strong>!!!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HOLY SMOKES! He&#8217;s done it. He&#8217;s decided to <del>take the plunge<\/del> tie the knot with Fiona! An equally shocking development was to find out that she was moving to the Bay Area within a month! Woah.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a couple of weeks of agony in going through the <i>&#8220;how I know if she&#8217;s the one&#8230;.&#8221;<\/i> stage. I went through some <i>counseling<\/i> with a few people on that one.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, this blog entry wouldn&#8217;t be complete without my reply to this great news&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCongrats! OH MY GOD! HOLY COW!<\/p>\n<p>You sure fricking kept your cool when I was taking you to the airport, JERK!<\/p>\n<p>Grace&#8217;s so happy that she can&#8217;t even take a shower&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fiona, Grace is looking forward to your moving here&#8230; Chee-hoi, welcome to the married-men&#8217;s club (almost). I will show you the secret hand-shake when you tie the knot.<\/p>\n<p>Chu\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 12AM this morning as Grace and I prepared to watch a DVD, we got a surprise Christmas present from Chee-hoi, one of the last remaining bachelors: On Dec 25, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Cheehoi Chua wrote: &#8230;I proposed to Fiona and she said yes! She&#8217;s moving to bayarea next month! woohoo! \ud83d\ude2f !!!!!!!!! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/26\/a-christmas-proposal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Christmas Proposal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-69","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}