{"id":10391,"date":"2026-02-27T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=10391"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:29:32","slug":"didnt-i-marry-you-two-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=10391","title":{"rendered":"Didn\u2019t I marry you two last year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"155\"><strong data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"153\">When a Candle Backfires\u2026\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f602.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"157\" data-end=\"276\">Ted and Mary were walking down the street when a priest stopped them.<br data-start=\"226\" data-end=\"229\" \/>\u201cDidn\u2019t I marry you two last year?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"307\">\u201cYes, Father,\u201d Ted replied.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"352\">\u201cAny children yet?\u201d the priest continued.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"394\">Mary sighed, \u201cNot yet, unfortunately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"508\">The priest smiled, \u201cI\u2019m going to Rome and I\u2019ll light a candle for you both to be blessed with children.\u201d\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f64f.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude4f\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f56f.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd6f\ufe0f\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"598\">Years later, Mary runs into the priest at a fundraiser.<br data-start=\"565\" data-end=\"568\" \/>He asks, \u201cSo\u2026 any kids yet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"600\" data-end=\"716\">Mary beams, \u201cYou could say that! Triplets the first year, then six more\u2014one every nine months!\u201d\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f476.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc76\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"783\">The priest says, \u201cThat\u2019s wonderful! Where\u2019s your husband, Ted?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"857\">Mary smirks, \u201cHe\u2019s gone to Rome\u2026 to blow out your\u00a0<em data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"843\">bloody<\/em>\u00a0candle!\u201d\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f602.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude02\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>When a Candle Backfires\u2026\u00a0 Ted and Mary were walking down the street when a priest stopped them.\u201cDidn\u2019t I marry you two last year?\u201d he asked. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=10391\" title=\"Didn\u2019t I marry you two last year?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10393,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10391\/revisions\/10393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}