{"id":16481,"date":"2026-05-11T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16481"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:06:29","slug":"fifty-years-of-marriage-a-dose-of-reality-and-a-tent-under-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16481","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years of Marriage, A Dose of Reality, and a Tent Under the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"421\">After 50 years of marriage, an old man joked to his wife that while they now had a beautiful home, car, and big TV, he was no longer sleeping beside the \u201chot 23-year-old\u201d he married. Calmly, his wife replied that he was free to find a young woman\u2014and she\u2019d make sure he ended up back in a cheap house, driving a junk car, sleeping on a sofa bed, and watching a tiny black-and-white TV again. He quickly stopped talking.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"423\" data-end=\"756\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Later, the same elderly couple went camping. In the middle of the night, the wife woke her husband and asked what he saw in the stars. Feeling philosophical, he spoke about planets, galaxies, and the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe. After listening patiently, she replied, \u201cNo, honey\u2026 it means somebody stole our tent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>After 50 years of marriage, an old man joked to his wife that while they now had a beautiful home, car, and big TV, he <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=16481\" title=\"Fifty Years of Marriage, A Dose of Reality, and a Tent Under the Stars\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16481","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\/16481","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=16481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16483,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16481\/revisions\/16483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}