{"id":15471,"date":"2014-08-07T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15471"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T14:53:02","slug":"hope-springs-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/07\/hope-springs-eternal\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope springs eternal &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/08\/01\/engaged-couple-photo-before-they-met_n_5642772.html\">Yet another couple<\/a> has discovered that years before they met, one of them had photobombed the other. Last time, it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2010\/06\/20\/wanted-a-very-special-photo-from-an-early-70s-seuling-con\/\">photo taken at Disneyland<\/a>. This time, it was at the beach. <\/p>\n<p>This gives me hope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AlexandDonnaVoutsinas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AlexandDonnaVoutsinas-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"AlexandDonnaVoutsinas\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AlexandDonnaVoutsinas-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/AlexandDonnaVoutsinas.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because, you see, my wife and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2010\/06\/20\/wanted-a-very-special-photo-from-an-early-70s-seuling-con\/\">were both<\/a> at the first comic book convention I ever attended, and while we did not meet until four years later, I&#8217;ve always wondered whether there might be a photo out there of us side by side &#8230; sitting in the audience, wandering the dealers room, waiting for an elevator &#8230; and not knowing the future that lay in wait for us.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a chance one might turn up, isn&#8217;t there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another couple has discovered that years before they met, one of them had photobombed the other. Last time, it was a photo taken at Disneyland. This time, it was at the beach. This gives me hope. Because, you see, my wife and I were both at the first comic book convention I ever attended, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[58,73],"class_list":["post-15471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conventions","tag-irene-vartanoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15498,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15471\/revisions\/15498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}