{"id":191,"date":"2011-04-22T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:14:00","slug":"the-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"The Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ItvnuV5NVUg\/TbGtY9fLi2I\/AAAAAAAALM8\/KidO7tiI6SQ\/s1600\/apr15%2Bus%2Bfirst%2Briver%2Bwalk%2Bof%2Bspring%2B%252856%2529crop.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ItvnuV5NVUg\/TbGtY9fLi2I\/AAAAAAAALM8\/KidO7tiI6SQ\/s320\/apr15%2Bus%2Bfirst%2Briver%2Bwalk%2Bof%2Bspring%2B%252856%2529crop.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598446456132045666\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Buzzing, the buzzing of an electric razor is coming from my washroom.  Husband is cleaning up his beard for the family dinner tonight; Good Friday will be marked by a dinner with his side of the family.  Husband dear has a beard for my sake.  We found a funny little compromise, if you will.  He likes long hair on me (much more then I do) and I like thick beards on men so he is growing his beard out for the first time in our marriage and I am growing my hair out again.  I have a big goofy grin on my face as I type this&#8230; I find it all too cute&#8230; this is a cute example of compromise in a marriage.  It is sweet really&#8230; so sweet every time I look at his beard I feel romantically toward him.<\/p>\n<p>Compromise in a marriage isn&#8217;t always this easy to figure out&#8230; not always this sweet to embrace&#8230; both partners aren&#8217;t always so willing to bend&#8230; and yet bend we must.  The other day my husband hugged me and then said &#8216;Love isn&#8217;t love until you have to do the hard work.  It isn&#8217;t a feeling, it is a devotion and determination when the promise of marriage is tough to keep,&#8217; (or said something to that effect).<\/p>\n<p>Marriage is, indeed, a promise not made because of a feeling, we all know IF WE ARE HONEST how very fleeting feelings are.  It is a promise made to remember when we want to quit based on feelings&#8230; the promise remains when we don&#8217;t want to bend and work with our spouse anymore&#8230; it is there to make us remember this marriage isn&#8217;t for us or just about us but for and about our spouse and our children and our community.<\/p>\n<p>I think I will wear my hair down, for dinner tonight, and put a flower clip in it&#8230; because he likes it that way.<\/p>\n<p>TTFN<br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buzzing, the buzzing of an electric razor is coming from my washroom. Husband is cleaning up his beard for the family dinner tonight; Good Friday will be marked by a dinner with his side of the family. Husband dear has a beard for my sake. We found a funny little compromise, if you will. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}