{"id":608,"date":"2008-08-18T04:56:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T09:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2008-08-18T04:56:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T09:56:24","slug":"a-very-cool-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/a-very-cool-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"waffle house wedding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered, smothered, covered and hitched (gwinnettdailypost.com)<br \/>\nDACULA &#8211; As the famous twang of Hank Williams Jr. blasted from an SUV stereo Friday afternoon, about 30 folks socialized, sipped soda and puffed on cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>No, this wasn&#8217;t a Fourth of July backyard barbecue. It was the run-up to a wedding.<\/p>\n<p>In a Waffle House parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>The lucky couple, George &#8220;Bubba&#8221; Mathis and Pamela Christian &#8211; both 23 and employees at the Dacula diner located at the Ga. Highway 316\/U.S. Highway 29 interchange &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s something different,&#8221; Mathis said while fixing his tie prior to the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the couple tried to marry on their Independence Day anniversary. But the bride was always scheduled to work. Instead of waiting any longer &#8211; she got the day off at the last minute; Mathis had to report for the morning shift &#8211; the couple of nine years decided to seal the deal at work&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/print.asp?SectionID=6&amp;SubSectionID=84&amp;ArticleID=16944\" target=\"_blank\">for the full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-607 aligncenter\" title=\"wh\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinbryant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/wh.jpg?resize=350%2C242\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered, smothered, covered and hitched (gwinnettdailypost.com) DACULA &#8211; As the famous twang of Hank Williams Jr. blasted from an SUV stereo Friday afternoon, about 30 folks socialized, sipped soda and puffed on cigarettes. No, this wasn&#8217;t a Fourth of July backyard barbecue. It was the run-up to a wedding. In a Waffle House parking lot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-9O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}