{"id":242,"date":"2017-02-02T21:06:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T21:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=242"},"modified":"2020-04-14T00:27:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:27:02","slug":"lucky-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is the month of love, I thought I\u2019d share a little insider secret to a long and happy marriage. This piece in its longer form can also be found in <em>Thirty Years, or Forever: the Story of Us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Going out on a Friday night or any night of the weekend around here can be a daunting enterprise. I\u2019m pretty sure every cowboy and his girl (and the dog(s)) drive in from the reaches of the Montana wilderness, wedging their pickup trucks in wherever they can find parking for a night on the town. Toss in a hefty number of college kids, and the wait is gonna be a while.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wallace and I wised up after a couple decades and came up with a new game plan of Dodging the Rams and F-150\u2019s. We call it \u201cLucky Thursday,\u201d among other things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you feeling lucky tonight,&#8221; I ask with a dance step and a flirty wink.<\/p>\n<p>Jam\u00e9 stops mid-stride on whatever task he is completing and says, \u201cYes. Most definitely, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I say we go and see how our luck holds out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we still talking about food and drinks?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMhhm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, in the tradition of Sabbath lovemaking and outsmarting the locals, on the fourth day of the work week, I ask, \u201cAre you feeling lucky tonight?\u201d And no matter how exhausted he is or how hopeless the week has spun out to be, I have yet to hear an answer other than a glimmering affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow Thursday comes round sooner than Friday nights, and we always feel like maybe we are pulling off something a little sneaky. We order happy hour drinks and sometimes get Ladies Night special if we\u2019re having Mexican. And chances are we\u2019re gonna get back for roll in the sack before the neighbors come home, or the housemates, the boomerang kids, or hell, whatever. It\u2019s awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is the month of love, I thought I\u2019d share a little insider secret to a long and happy marriage. This piece in its longer form can also be found in Thirty Years, or Forever: the Story of Us. Going out on a Friday night or any night of the weekend around here can be a daunting enterprise. I\u2019m pretty sure every cowboy and his girl (and the dog(s)) drive in from the reaches of the Montana wilderness, wedging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,26],"tags":[46,48,23,38,75],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intimacy","category-marriage","tag-celebration","tag-empty-nesting","tag-humor","tag-marriage","tag-thirty-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.donasofia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}