{"id":21103,"date":"2008-08-25T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/08\/25\/wedding-two-year-old-flower-girl-wildcard\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T10:00:01","slug":"wedding-two-year-old-flower-girl-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080825-01\/?p=21103","title":{"rendered":"Wedding + two-year-old flower girl = wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/08\/21\/8880076.aspx\"> I was in San Francisco this weekend<\/a> for a wedding. The flower girl was the bride&#8217;s two-year-old niece, and when you add a two-year-old to the wedding party, you never know what&#8217;s going to happen, because two-year-olds don&#8217;t understand the world the same way adults do.<\/p>\n<p> During the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveisanexplodingcigar.com\/shirleyjump\/wedding_disasters_and_funnies\"> unity candle ceremony<\/a>, the two-year-old pushed her way to the table, joining the bride and groom, in order to get a front-row seat for the ritual. And then when the unity candle was lit, she tried to blow it out. <\/p>\n<p> Because when you&#8217;re two years old, the only time you see people make a big deal about lighting a candle is when it&#8217;s atop a birthday cake, and you know what to do with birthday candles! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in San Francisco this weekend for a wedding. The flower girl was the bride&#8217;s two-year-old niece, and when you add a two-year-old to the wedding party, you never know what&#8217;s going to happen, because two-year-olds don&#8217;t understand the world the same way adults do. During the unity candle ceremony, the two-year-old pushed her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-21103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I was in San Francisco this weekend for a wedding. The flower girl was the bride&#8217;s two-year-old niece, and when you add a two-year-old to the wedding party, you never know what&#8217;s going to happen, because two-year-olds don&#8217;t understand the world the same way adults do. During the unity candle ceremony, the two-year-old pushed her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}