{"id":1563,"date":"2009-06-12T21:05:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T04:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2009-06-12T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T04:13:18","slug":"has-it-really-been-45-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1563","title":{"rendered":"Has It Really Been 45 Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forty-five years ago this evening Nina and I were married at the New Haven Branch of the LDS Church in New Haven, Connecticut. We had met on a blind date about eight months earlier and within a couple weeks we began talking about getting married. I don’t think I ever formally proposed, but by Christmas time we were busy making plans.<\/p>\n

I was going to the Air Force’s Chinese Language School at Yale University in New Haven. I reported there in late September, 1963 and met Nina in late October. The school finished at the end of the first week in June and I had to report for further training at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Texas on June 22nd. Nina was a senior at Hambden High School and her last class was on June 12th.<\/p>\n

We were married by the Branch President on Friday, June 12, 1964. We had a small wedding reception at the Branch Meeting House and Nina and I spent the night at a nearby very nice motel (we watched Jack Parr on TV that evening). The next morning we left with my mother and my Aunt June to go to San Angelo.<\/p>\n

We drove through Washington, D.C. (it was an incredibly hot day), then on to Texas with a couple of stops along the way at night. One evening we stayed in a motel in Tennessee that had a number of \u00c2\u00a0log cabins for their rooms.<\/p>\n

Mother and Aunt June helped us find an apartment in San Angelo, and then they left to go back home (mother to Soda Springs, and Aunt June to Tooele, Utah).<\/p>\n

Our first apartment cost $35 a month and was located in downtown San Angelo above a dry cleaning establishment. It was a two-room apartment and we were very excited to set up housekeeping.<\/p>\n

It’s been a good 45 years since then. We have been blessed with wonderful children and they’ve found outstanding spouses. Life has been very, very good. I definitely “married up” and have never had second thoughts. Happy anniversary, Nina, light of my life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forty-five years ago this evening Nina and I were married at the New Haven Branch of the LDS Church in New Haven, Connecticut. We had met on a blind date about eight months earlier and within a couple weeks we began talking about getting married. I don’t think I ever formally proposed, but by Christmas … Continue reading Has It Really Been 45 Years?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-pd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}