{"id":180271,"date":"2017-06-07T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/07\/the-joys-of-marriage\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T23:51:00","slug":"the-joys-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/06\/07\/the-joys-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was coming home from the chiropractor today with Sharon<sup>*<\/sup> driving, and the song <i>Don&#8217;t Stand So Close To Me<\/i> by the Police came on, and she turned up the volume.<\/p>\n<p>I asked her why she liked this song, but hated the Pink Floyd song <i>The Wall<\/i>, which she hates for what she sees as its anti-teacher message. (&#8220;We don&#8217;t need no education \u2026\u2026\u2026 Hey! Teacher, leave them kids alone&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I replied that she just turned up the volume on a song about an affair between a teacher and a student.<\/p>\n<p>She said that she was unaware of this, and then she quickly changed the station.<\/p>\n<p>I then sung:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Her friends are so jealous<br \/>You know how bad girls get<br \/>Sometimes it&#8217;s not so easy<br \/>To be the teacher&#8217;s pet<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then she elbowed me.<\/p>\n<p>I am amused.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Love of my life, light of the  cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">she  who must be obeyed<\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was coming home from the chiropractor today with Sharon* driving, and the song Don&#8217;t Stand So Close To Me by the Police came on, and she turned up the volume. I asked her why she liked this song, but hated the Pink Floyd song The Wall, which she hates for what she sees as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,422,478],"class_list":["post-180271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-education","tag-family","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}