{"id":15489,"date":"2010-11-13T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2010\/11\/13\/ceremonious\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:16","slug":"ceremonious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2010\/11\/13\/ceremonious\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremonious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear:both\">Phew! I finished writing the first draft of my wedding ceremony yesterday. This piece was a real challenge for several reasons:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"clear:both\">\n<li>My partner is Scottish, and Scots are <em>not<\/em> big on &#8220;American&#8221;-style cheese. Oh, sure, <em>X-Factor<\/em> and dancing shows and drama in the news &#8212; that&#8217;s all fine. But they don&#8217;t go for the gooshy stuff in real life. So I had to fully express the right sentiments, but keep someone else&#8217;s very finely attuned cheese-o-meter in mind, too.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Oh, but you&#8217;re a writer.&#8221; Yeah, that&#8217;s actually a problem. Writers seize up when they start thinking about impressing people. That&#8217;s not what this was about. Also, in writing for a public event (even if it&#8217;s just family), it&#8217;s nearly impossible to not get preoccupied with &#8220;What will they think?&#8221;, which I contend is the question behind every instance of writer&#8217;s block.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">So I endeavoured to keep remembering what the purpose of this was, yet still be true to what I wanted it to be about &#8212; which, happily, Craig agreed with.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">In the end, I think it&#8217;s pretty natural and straightforward, which is consistent with who we are, and hopefully leaves room for it to be a relaxed event about what it&#8217;s about, rather than exploding into some trying-too-hard magical Cinderella production number.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear:both\">Unless, of course, my family forego doing readings and decide to burst into song and dance. Which is fine; I&#8217;d like to see that.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>p&gt;<br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear:both\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1198\/ceremonious0.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phew! I finished writing the first draft of my wedding ceremony yesterday. This piece was a real challenge for several reasons: My partner is Scottish, and Scots are not big on &#8220;American&#8221;-style cheese. Oh, sure, X-Factor and dancing shows and drama in the news &#8212; that&#8217;s all fine. But they don&#8217;t go for the gooshy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}