{"id":10371,"date":"2018-12-10T17:30:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T23:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=10371"},"modified":"2018-12-10T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T06:54:05","slug":"i-double-dog-dare-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/i-double-dog-dare-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Double Dog Dare You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever watched the movie A Christmas Story then you know exactly what the term \u2018double dog dare you\u2019 means. If you haven\u2019t watched the movie A Christmas Story then what in the heck is wrong with you?!?!\u00a0 I mean, you gotta watch it!\u00a0 It\u2019s a holiday classic that needs to be watched every Christmas season at least once, if not two or three times!<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019ve digressed\u2026the point in bringing up that movie is that I am about to double dog dare you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Attached is a video of a man describing his wife to a sketch artist who is going to draw her picture. When I watched this video there was no pretending I had allergies or I\u2019d just finished chopping onions \u2013 it straight up made me cry!\u00a0 And before you think I\u2019m just some kind of sap and that\u2019s why I cried, I\u2019m going to double dog dare you to watch this video yourself. Just as taking the double dog dare to lick a frozen lamp post is guaranteed to get your tongue stuck, watching this video is guaranteed to make you tear up. See for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7sKNIyOZY4I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All I know is that everyone needs someone in their life who loves them as much as this man loves his wife. But that kind of love doesn\u2019t just happen by chance \u2013 that kind of love takes work and patience and forgiveness and kindness toward one another. It takes commitment and effort to grow a love like theirs. But watching the way he talks about her\u2026well that shows you why all that work is worth it.<\/p>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever watched the movie A Christmas Story then you know exactly what the term \u2018double dog dare you\u2019 means. If you haven\u2019t watched the movie A Christmas Story then what in the heck is wrong with you?!?!\u00a0 I mean, you gotta watch it!\u00a0 It\u2019s a holiday classic that needs to be watched every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15717,395,46,7003,504,6236,1735,96,19913,19912,616,5564,102,19917,55,19914,19922,19920,137,19918,19921,19916,19915,11,15726,544,5565,19919],"class_list":["post-10371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-christmas-story","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-attitude","tag-be-kind","tag-choice","tag-courtesy","tag-cry","tag-culture","tag-double-dog-dare","tag-double-dog-dare-you","tag-endure-to-the-end","tag-eternal-love","tag-forgiveness","tag-guaranteed-to-make-you-cry","tag-happiness","tag-holiday-classic","tag-it-takes-commitment","tag-its-a-choice","tag-kindness","tag-lick-a-frozen-lamp-post","tag-love-that-lasts-forever","tag-loving-marriage","tag-man-describes-wife-to-sketch-artist","tag-marriage","tag-ralphie","tag-relationships","tag-true-love","tag-watch-it-without-crying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10373,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10371\/revisions\/10373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}