{"id":207,"date":"2026-07-14T04:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:28:43","slug":"i-married-my-childhood-sweetheart-in-his-p2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"I Married My Childhood Sweetheart in His P2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The doctors quietly told us he probably had only a few months left.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>I remember looking at the wedding invitations we had already mailed and thinking,<br class=\"html-br\" \/>None of this matters anymore.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>So we canceled everything.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>No ballroom.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>No flowers.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>No first dance.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Instead, I asked a hospital chaplain to marry us in Ben\u2019s room.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>I wore my favorite blue jeans, a white shirt, and a cheap veil one of the nurses found at a party store during her lunch break.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Ben insisted on wearing the ridiculous black bow tie I had bought him for our original wedding.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>It looked absurd with his hospital pajamas.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>He said,<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cA groom has standards.\u201d<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Everyone cried.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Even the nurses.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>After the ceremony, Ben squeezed my hand and whispered,<br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cBest day of my life.\u201d<br class=\"html-br\" \/>I truly believed it was mine too.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>Then one of the nurses caught me alone in the hallway.<br class=\"html-br\" \/>She glanced toward Ben\u2019s room to make sure he could not hear us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/?p=208&amp;preview=true\">NIXT&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The doctors quietly told us he probably had only a few months left.I remember looking at the wedding invitations we&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitchensecrets.delicedcook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}