{"id":757,"date":"2023-03-08T08:58:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=757"},"modified":"2023-05-10T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T05:59:30","slug":"my-wife-in-the-back-seat-on-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/my-wife-in-the-back-seat-on-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"My wife in the back seat on my birthday, with Slowdive in the CD player."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is my birthday. This morning I drove Mayu to her work. I was playing &#8220;Shine&#8221; by Slowdive on the stereo. When I stopped at a red light and looked back at her (she&#8217;s still too scared to sit in the front seat with me after she was hit by a car 4 years ago), I looked back at her and she smiled in a way that the age on her face seemed to disappear, and it felt like I was looking at Mayu from over 20 years ago, when we were newlyweds. It was like a time slip moment. I wish I could have frozen time then to sustain the moment. I love her now more these days than I have in many years. She wished me a happy birthday. I love you, Mayu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slowdive - Shine (Video)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mbgWjujwvwo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>&#8220;Shine&#8221; by Slowdive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my birthday. This morning I drove Mayu to her work. I was playing &#8220;Shine&#8221; by Slowdive on the stereo. When I stopped at a red light and looked back at her (she&#8217;s still too scared to sit in the front seat with me after she was hit by a car 4 years ago), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/my-wife-in-the-back-seat-on-my-birthday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My wife in the back seat on my birthday, with Slowdive in the CD player.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,84],"tags":[87,100,86,85],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music","tag-birthday","tag-mayu","tag-shoegaze","tag-slowdive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":747,"url":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2023\/02\/27\/our-new-floor-sofa\/","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":0},"title":"Our new floor sofa","date":"2023-02-27","format":false,"excerpt":"Just over a month ago, I finally bought a small floor sofa for our apartment's living room. 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