{"id":6048,"date":"2022-09-09T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2022-09-09T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T04:44:03","slug":"twenty-years-since-our-first-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/09\/twenty-years-since-our-first-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years Since Our First Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_210722-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6049\" width=\"715\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_210722-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_210722-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_210722-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_210722-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_210722-640x480.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_210722.jpeg 2035w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I dropped in to Cafe Intermezzo near Perimeter Mall to get a little editing in on SPECTRAL IRON and realized that THIS was where I and my wife went for our first date, almost exactly twenty years ago! (I think we were sitting just out of view, not far from the chair you can see at the left of frame.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sandi-is-Beautiful-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6050\" width=\"716\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sandi-is-Beautiful-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sandi-is-Beautiful-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sandi-is-Beautiful.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t taking pictures as regularly then and selfies certainly weren&#8217;t a thing, so the closest pictures I have of Sandi were from a photo shoot we did almost a year later when she needed reference images for some paintings she was doing. Many of those are just Sandi striking odd poses that corresponded to something that she needed to draw, but I think the one above turned out quite well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6052\" width=\"717\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20220909_215501-640x480.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cafe Intermezzo will always hold a place in my heart as it&#8217;s one of my best late-night thinking and writing places, but the one at Perimeter has an even more special place, as it&#8217;s where Sandi and I, who had met at the Chamber a few weeks before, shared our first date and our second kiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AUT_0314-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6053\" width=\"717\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AUT_0314-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AUT_0314-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AUT_0314.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s to another twenty great years!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I dropped in to Cafe Intermezzo near Perimeter Mall to get a little editing in on SPECTRAL IRON and realized that THIS was where I and my wife went&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,193,75],"tags":[6,4,82,5],"class_list":["post-6048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coffeehouses","category-real-life","category-reviews","tag-dakota-frost","tag-dragon-writers","tag-studio-sandi","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6054,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}