{"id":963,"date":"2010-10-22T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2010-10-22T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T08:00:00","slug":"unexpected-date-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected &quot;Date Night&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Yesterday my partner called me during the day &#8212; which caused my heart to skip a beat, because he never calls me on the phone unless it&#8217;s an emergency.&nbsp; He said, &#8220;change your dinner plans, put away whatever you got out to make.&nbsp; I&#8217;m taking care of dinner tonight.&#8221;&nbsp; And he wouldn&#8217;t say much more&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">When he arrived home from work, he handed me a bouquet of flowers and pulled out some bags from a restaurant up the road that we both like (though don&#8217;t go to but maybe once a year.)&nbsp; He said, &#8220;it&#8217;s a date night&#8230; let&#8217;s enjoy dinner and snuggle after.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">He pulled out the china and set the table in our formal dining room.&nbsp; He plated the meal and seated me, held my hand, and told me that he loved me.&nbsp; We toasted each other with our respective glasses of water. &nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Awww&#8230; how sweet.&nbsp; For no reason at all, he brought me flowers and dinner and wow, was he ever snuggly!&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Damn, I&#8217;m lucky I&#8217;m in love with my best friend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Life is short: show those you love that you love them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday my partner called me during the day &#8212; which caused my heart to skip a beat, because he never calls me on the phone unless it&#8217;s an emergency.&nbsp; He said, &#8220;change your dinner plans, put away whatever you got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=963\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-partners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}