{"id":12794,"date":"2011-10-10T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=12794"},"modified":"2011-10-09T23:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T03:37:58","slug":"my-almost-husband-paul-mccartney-is-a-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/my-almost-husband-paul-mccartney-is-a-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"My Almost-Husband Paul McCartney Is a Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/few-of-my-favorite-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">almost-husband<\/a> Paul McCartney for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/people\/story\/2011-10-09\/paul-mccartney-wedding\/50709532\/1\" target=\"_blank\">marrying<\/a> the nice-seeming and very attractive <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/my-almost-husband-paul-mccartney-to-wed-nancy-shevell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Shevell<\/a>. I think she&#8217;s perfect for him because she:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/nothing-to-see-here-heather-move-along\/\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t have a resume of crazy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>can presumably tolerate <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/mrb-gets-his-kicks-on-route-66\/\" target=\"_blank\">annoying thumb activity<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/fightin-walrus\/\" target=\"_blank\">pot<\/a> and the word &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/few-of-my-favorite-things\/\" target=\"_blank\">veggie<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_12795\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/sns-paul-mccartneynancy-shevell-wedding-20111009,0,2078578.photogallery\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12795\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12795 \" title=\"macca\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/macca.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/macca.gif 600w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/macca-300x220.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Reuters via the Chicago Tribune. Click for source and more photos.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Speaking of Paul, the <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/05\/arts\/television\/george-harrison-documentary-from-martin-scorsese.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times called him &#8220;impossibly charming&#8221;<\/a> in the Martin Scorsese documentary about George Harrison that recently aired on HBO. I missed <em><a title=\"Film\u2019s page at HBO.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hbo.com\/documentaries\/george-harrison-living-in-the-material-world\/index.html\">George Harrison: Living in the Material World<\/a><\/em> when it aired; hopefully, I can catch up with it on demand.<\/p>\n<p>And I feel like I should mention that my gorgeous mother, BarbaraB, said to me, &#8220;I see your almost-husband got married.&#8221; I loved that. I demand that all of you refer to Paul McCartney as &#8220;WendyB&#8217;s almost-husband&#8221; from now on. <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/kneel-before-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">OBEY<\/a>! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to my almost-husband Paul McCartney for marrying the nice-seeming and very attractive Nancy Shevell. I think she&#8217;s perfect for him because she: doesn&#8217;t have a resume of crazy. can presumably tolerate annoying thumb activity, pot and the word &#8220;veggie.&#8221; Speaking of Paul, the New York Times called him &#8220;impossibly charming&#8221; in the Martin Scorsese&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/my-almost-husband-paul-mccartney-is-a-husband\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beatles","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12797,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions\/12797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}