{"id":2467,"date":"2010-02-14T19:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T00:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2010-02-14T19:20:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T00:20:02","slug":"a-sweet-and-une","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/a-sweet-and-une\/","title":{"rendered":"A sweet and unexpected story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livecatholic.net\/2010\/02\/real-love.html\">Live Catholic<\/a>:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"victorian couple hand tinted.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/victorian%20couple%20hand%20tinted.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In March of 1920, a bachelor police officer, decided it was time to seriously look for a wife, so &#8211; there being no computers or internet then &#8211; he used the current technology and put an advertisement in the newspaper.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Middle ranking civil servant, single, Catholic, 43-years-old, immaculate past, from the countryside, is seeking a good Catholic pure girl, who can cook well, and who can do all housework, who is also capable of sewing and a good homemaker in order to marry at the soonest opportunity.  Personal fortune would be desirable but is not however a precondition.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nThe ad did not work.  He received a promotion at work, and decided to try again. He placed the ad again in July.  This time a woman named Maria Peintner, 36 years old and a cook, answered the ad.  There was no personal fortune.  They met at a coffee shop and were engaged a few days later.  The wedding was in November.  The last of their three children was born in 1927 and they decided to name him after his father&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click over to Marcy&#8217;s for&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livecatholic.net\/2010\/02\/real-love.html\">the REST of the story!<\/a><br \/>\n<em><small><br \/>\nimage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmission.com\/~tssphoto\/vt.html\">Vintage Traditions<\/a><\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found at Live Catholic: In March of 1920, a bachelor police officer, decided it was time to seriously look for a wife, so &#8211; there being no computers or internet then &#8211; he used the current technology and put an advertisement in the newspaper. &#8220;Middle ranking civil servant, single, Catholic, 43-years-old, immaculate past, from the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/02\/a-sweet-and-une\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A sweet and unexpected story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-st-blogs","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}