{"id":18473,"date":"2010-06-24T23:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18473"},"modified":"2015-02-03T13:30:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:30:47","slug":"the-happy-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/24\/the-happy-couple\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happy Couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 24, 1974 (a Monday that year), I woke up in Brooklyn with a big day ahead of me. It was to be my first day on the job at Marvel Comics, and as I headed into Manhattan to that famous address of 575 Madison Avenue, I was thrilled.<\/p>\n<p>But I had no idea that something even more important was in store for me that day, because once I  arrived, I  met my future wife, Irene Vartanoff, who had started at Marvel just a few months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we did to celebrate today was to pull out our photo albums to relive some of the old days, so here&#8217;s a photo of the happy couple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ScottEdelmanWalterJonWilliams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ScottEdelmanWalterJonWilliams-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanWalterJonWilliams\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ScottEdelmanWalterJonWilliams-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ScottEdelmanWalterJonWilliams.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, all right, you got me. That isn&#8217;t me and Irene. It&#8217;s instead me and Walter Jon Williams during the 1997 Nebula Awards weekend in Kansas City, Missouri. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But the thing is, you&#8217;ve already <i>seen<\/i> all the pictures of the two of us from that time period&#8212;such as the images below from the 1975 Marvel Con program book&#8212;so there really aren&#8217;t any more new old photos of us to show you.  You&#8217;ll just have to settle for me and Walter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/EdelmanVartanoffMarvelCon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/EdelmanVartanoffMarvelCon-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"EdelmanVartanoffMarvelCon\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/EdelmanVartanoffMarvelCon-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/EdelmanVartanoffMarvelCon.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t make that day 36 years ago today any less special.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 24, 1974 (a Monday that year), I woke up in Brooklyn with a big day ahead of me. It was to be my first day on the job at Marvel Comics, and as I headed into Manhattan to that famous address of 575 Madison Avenue, I was thrilled. But I had no idea [&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":[73],"class_list":["post-18473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-irene-vartanoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473","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=18473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18475,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18473\/revisions\/18475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}