{"id":10205,"date":"2020-10-26T11:16:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=10205"},"modified":"2020-10-26T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:16:20","slug":"sammy-gets-engaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/10\/26\/sammy-gets-engaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Gets Engaged"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This weekend while Tom, Candy, and I were catching fish in the Gulf of Mexico, Ben was catching the Sammy fish in Tennessee.  Ben asked for my permission a couple of weeks ago when we were together in Gattlinburg, TN.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend, Sam and Ben went to pick pumpkins.  Ben asked a passerby to take a photo of them.  To everyone&#8217;s surprise while the stranger was taking pictures, Ben proposed.  They plan to wait a couple of years to get married until they both finish school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1168-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10202\" \/><figcaption>The innocent picture pretext&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1171-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10206\" \/><figcaption>It begins&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1172-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10207\" \/><figcaption>It is beginning to dawn on her&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1175-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10208\" \/><figcaption>The lightbulb comes on&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1177-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10209\" \/><figcaption>The ring comes out of hiding&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1179-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10210\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1183-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10211\" \/><figcaption>Apparently, she said &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_1187-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10212\" \/><figcaption>The ring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend while Tom, Candy, and I were catching fish in the Gulf of Mexico, Ben was catching the Sammy fish in Tennessee. Ben asked for my permission a couple of weeks ago when we were together in Gattlinburg, TN. This weekend, Sam and Ben went to pick pumpkins. Ben asked a passerby to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/2020\/10\/26\/sammy-gets-engaged\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sammy Gets Engaged<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bucksurdu.com\/bucksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}