{"id":202,"date":"2005-12-19T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T04:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2013-10-01T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T14:39:10","slug":"15-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/15-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago tonight, I said goodbye to my girlfriend. We had met during a semester of study in Israel and quickly developed a strong friendship. But with the semester over, we didn&#8217;t know if or how we would see each other again. She was from the Midwest and I was from California, and neither of us had been to the state where the other was living. But we decided that we would just trust God and if it was His will for us to stay together, He would work it out. He did, by 1) getting Kelli to California for Spring Break; 2) getting Kelli a job for the summer in my hometown; 3) getting Kelli a long-term job in the area while I finished college. Those were all key to keeping the relationship going and growing. I know that most people only have one &#8220;anniversary,&#8221; but there are at least 5 special dates that I remember each year, and Dec 19 is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>This picture is from the first Christmas we celebrated after we got married. 1992 in Israel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/Christmas-1992-with-Todd-and-Kelli-tbs73129212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2122 aligncenter\" alt=\"Christmas 1992 with Todd and Kelli, tbs73129212\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/Christmas-1992-with-Todd-and-Kelli-tbs73129212-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/Christmas-1992-with-Todd-and-Kelli-tbs73129212-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/12\/Christmas-1992-with-Todd-and-Kelli-tbs73129212-1024x666.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifteen years ago tonight, I said goodbye to my girlfriend. We had met during a semester of study in Israel and quickly developed a strong friendship. But with the semester over, we didn&#8217;t know if or how we would see each other again. She was from the Midwest and I was from California, and neither\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/19\/15-years-ago\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}