{"id":2918,"date":"2013-02-28T07:37:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T07:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:49:19","slug":"its-no-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s no bother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering important <a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=6383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dates<\/a> is one of my less used skills, which must explain why it has atrophied. This thought occurs to me twice a year, as my wife and I celebrate both the date of our <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@ohio2england\/a-tea-towel-for-two-3b532dee9526\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marriage<\/a> and the date \u2013 you could call it our first and only date \u2013 I waylaid her in the apartment building where we both lived and we spent the night talking in the laundry downstairs.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday she told me about one of her co-workers, who this year forgot his wedding anniversary while his wife naturally didn&#8217;t. When he was helped to awareness of this unfortunate fact, he quickly attempted a save of the sort gifts or cards were invented to help effect. &#8220;Don&#8217;t bother,&#8221; she told him. How nice that we could laugh about this even as I scampered away from the scene of my own error.<\/p>\n<p>Now it is time for me to <a href=\"http:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">count backwards<\/a>, as you do before an operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembering important dates is one of my less used skills, which must explain why it has atrophied. This thought occurs to me twice a year, as my wife and I celebrate both the date of our marriage and the date &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/?p=2918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettygoodbritain.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}