{"id":77006,"date":"2024-05-16T16:41:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/?p=77006"},"modified":"2024-05-16T16:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:41:35","slug":"getting-married-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/getting-married-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Married at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Marriage is sacred. It is a divine and sacrosanct union between two people. If a person is fortunate enough, they will be blessed with having a partner in which they can live with for a lifetime. Unfortunately, some marriages simply don\u2019t work out or, due to misfortune, a spouse passes on. Some of those people may decide to marry again\u2026maybe two or three times.\n<p><strong><span style='\"font-size:'>But four times?\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>Consider the following humorous story of an 80 year-old lady who decided to get married again for the fourth time!!\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>A local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband\u2019s occupation.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cHe\u2019s a funeral director,\u201d she answered.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><strong>\u201cInteresting,\u201d the newsman thought.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>He then asked her if she wouldn\u2019t mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>She paused for a few minutes, needing time to reflect on all those years.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she first married a banker when she was in her early 20\u2019s, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40\u2019s, a preacher when she was in her 60\u2019s, and now in her 80\u2019s, a funeral director.\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>The interviewer looked at her quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers\u2026\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'>She smiled and explained, <strong>\u201cI married one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go.\u201d\n<h4><span style='\"font-size:' color:><strong>Smiling is good for the heart, laughing is good for the soul, and loving will keep you living, laughing, and loving\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marriage is sacred. It is a divine and sacrosanct union between two people. If a person is fortunate enough, they will be blessed with having a partner in which they can live with for a lifetime. Unfortunately, some marriages simply don\u2019t work out or, due to misfortune, a spouse passes on. Some of those people\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":77038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-moral-story"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Getting-Married-at-80.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></strong></span></h4></strong></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></p></strong></span></p></strong></span></p></span></p></span></p></span></strong></p></span></p>