{"id":61,"date":"2003-06-28T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-28T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=61"},"modified":"2003-06-28T03:28:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-28T09:28:00","slug":"da-vincenzos-kyalami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/da-vincenzos-kyalami\/","title":{"rendered":"Da Vincenzo&#8217;s, Kyalami"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"date-header\">Saturday, June 28, 2003<\/h2>\n<p><i>Service: * *<br \/>\n<br \/>Food: * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>Ambience: * * * *<br \/>\n<br \/>Babe Count: * * * * *<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Erich is now officially a married person. Jacqui and I are at table three at the reception. And guess who&#8217;s with us? Yup&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What line of work are you in?&#8221; I say to the smooth looking guy with very large jowels.<\/p>\n<p>He sort of blinks, wondering why I haven&#8217;t recognised him. &#8220;I&#8217;m a minister,&#8221; he says. &#8220;A priest.&#8221; He waves his finger dangerously at the crowd of people. Maybe he&#8217;s trying to tell me something?<\/p>\n<p>Oh. <\/p>\n<p>Bloody hell. He&#8217;s one of the two dudes who sealed Erich and Janet&#8217;s wedding covenant. Eek. I should pay more attention in church. <\/p>\n<p>And the guy next to him? Yup. The other priest. There were two of them. And Erich, given that he&#8217;s got as perverted and twisted a sense of humour as I have, has put me, a scurrilous half-Jew, at the same table as the emissaries of the Christian Deity. <\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s all right. I went to an Anglican high school. So I kinda know what to say to priests. Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I turn to my right and fondle Jacqui&#8217;s neck. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love you,&#8221; I croon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love you,&#8221; she croons back, and it&#8217;s lucky the wedding ceremony is already over, cos at this rate, we could easily have skipped up the aisle and joined the queue. <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, June 28, 2003 Service: * * Food: * * * Ambience: * * * * Babe Count: * * * * * Erich is now officially a married person. Jacqui and I are at table three at the reception. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/da-vincenzos-kyalami\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Da Vincenzo&#8217;s, Kyalami<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}