{"id":1437,"date":"2010-12-07T02:09:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2017-02-07T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T23:16:42","slug":"whats-that-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s that in the sand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Carissa-SandRing_gold.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1437]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1440 alignleft\" title=\"Carissa-SandRing_gold\" src=\"http:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Carissa-SandRing_gold-113x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Carissa-SandRing_gold-113x188.jpg 113w, https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Carissa-SandRing_gold-174x290.jpg 174w, https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Carissa-SandRing_gold.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>You think you know stress? \u00a0Chris Walker could tell you a thing or two about the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Chris was ready to propose to his long-term girlfriend Carissa, whom he met at the human-powered submarine races in San Diego. \u00a0Both are engineers and very practical, sensible people who would never take absurd chances except under the most dire circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>But Chris knew he needed to make a big impact with his proposal, so he did something entirely out of character in its level of risk and uncertainty. \u00a0He placed the ring in the sand at a beach near their apartment, then picked Carissa up from work and suggested they go beachcombing on their way home.<\/p>\n<p>The beads of sweat didn&#8217;t give him away as he led her along the beach toward the ring he hoped was still there\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and it was. \u00a0They were married the following April.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of their engagement photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think you know stress? \u00a0Chris Walker could tell you a thing or two about the subject. Chris was ready to propose to his long-term girlfriend Carissa, whom he met at the human-powered submarine races in San Diego. \u00a0Both are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/?p=1437\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weddings","tag-originals","p1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthagen.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}