{"id":164,"date":"2021-07-15T17:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neildiko.mcpartlin.com\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2021-07-20T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:22:35","slug":"the-romance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/neildiko.mcpartlin.com\/?page_id=164","title":{"rendered":"The Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This was not an overnight thing, oh no, this was far better than that.  It was a gradual realisation that despite the size of our social group, we were both sub-consciously gravitating towards each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe it started in September, 2005 when I invited Ildiko to a Dubliners concert in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but on a day trip to Izola (Slovenia) in November, just the two of us&#8230;.   we just knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\" data-effect=\"slide\"><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><ul class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_swiper-wrapper swiper-wrapper\"><li class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_slide swiper-slide\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_image wp-image-178\" data-id=\"178\" 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