{"id":176349,"date":"2025-12-05T10:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176349\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:24:09","slug":"bill-linnane-after-20-years-of-wedded-bliss-and-a-bunch-of-kids-i-gave-my-wife-scratchcards-to-mark-our-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176349\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Linnane: After 20 years of wedded bliss and a bunch of kids, I gave my wife scratchcards to mark our anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The romance of a winter wedding is long forgotten when a family expands and the daily grind takes over\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Busy family life will get in the way of romance or even remembering your wedding anniversary. Photo posed: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7519e6ea-f360-48df-9537-f7e681b7398f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Busy family life will get in the way of romance or even remembering your wedding anniversary. Photo posed: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In theory, a winter wedding sounds great \u2013 a candlelight ceremony, roaring fire at the reception, maybe a little bit of snow on the hills for the photos, if you remember to bury the Child of Prague in the bottom of the chest freezer alongside a haunch of venison someone gave you in 2007 which you never quite knew what to do with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What you don\u2019t tend to think about is other people \u2013 all the poor souls who you expect to fork out for a kMix off the wedding register at Brown Thomas, not to mention forcing friends and family into splashing out for an overnight in some four star hotel in Ballygobackwards right before Christmas, but you spend even less thought on two of the most important people \u2013 future you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The romance of a winter wedding is long forgotten when a family expands and the daily grind takes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17711,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-176349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-bill-linnane","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}