{"id":880,"date":"2007-04-16T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/newlywed-game\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T18:02:49","slug":"newlywed-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/newlywed-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Newlywed Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki and I hosted our first 70&#8217;s themed Newlywed Game on Friday evening.  It was a great success and lots of fun.  I must say that the only thing more surprising than the costumes were some of the revelations that we came to that evening.  For instance:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bob showed us that Home Depot is an excellent source of menswear accessories, as well as some seriously insightful arguments on the benefits of controlling the laundry at home.<br \/>\n&#8211; Wilson didn&#8217;t completely fulfill predictions by taking home a mighty bruise from one or both of Lockrey&#8217;s fists.<br \/>\n&#8211; Julie and Rob&#8217;s strategy of default answers failed miserably, but somehow they managed to take home the goodies anyway.  Maybe the lesson to take away is to just have a strategy, even if it&#8217;s a terrible one.<br \/>\n&#8211; Nikki rocked the party with the smokin-est hair this side of Funkytown.<\/p>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p>Honourable mentions:  MC&#8217;s absolutely-nailed-it outfit that brought everyone back to grade school, Lockrey&#8217;s um&#8230; uniboob, and Lisa&#8217;s outfit that clearly started life as a circus tent.<\/p>\n<p>And finally the best part, we have pictures, oh yes, they are coming.  Public humiliation for all&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nikki and I hosted our first 70&#8217;s themed Newlywed Game on Friday evening. It was a great success and lots of fun. I must say that the only thing more surprising than the costumes were some of the revelations that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/newlywed-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}