{"id":1401,"date":"2007-06-12T00:10:30","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T04:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/12\/joey-devilla-and-a-craigslist-wedding\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T00:10:30","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T04:10:30","slug":"joey-devilla-and-a-craigslist-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/12\/joey-devilla-and-a-craigslist-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Joey deVilla and a craigslist wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_e418xet1rieu.jpg?w=525\" alt='snipshot_e418xet1rieu.jpg' \/>I guess I&#8217;m just an old softie at heart, but for some reason <a href=\"http:\/\/joeydevilla.com\/2007\/06\/11\/a-craigslist-wedding\/\">this post<\/a> by Joey &#8220;Accordion Guy&#8221; deVilla really brought a smile to my face &#8212; and almost a tear to my eye as well (don&#8217;t tell anyone). It&#8217;s about how Joey&#8217;s significant other, the <a href=\"http:\/\/redhead.blogware.com\/\">Ginger Ninja<\/a>, was looking through craigslist and came across <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.craigslist.org\/evg\/344447884.html\">an ad<\/a> from two women who were coming to Toronto to get married and were looking for witnesses. What the heck, Joey thinks &#8212; let&#8217;s go. So he and the missus troop down to City Hall with accordion in tow, meet the lovely young couple and act as witnesses, with Joey playing &#8220;Praise You&#8221; by Fatboy Slim on the squeezebox. Some great pics, and comments from the women who are now married &#8212; and even <a href=\"http:\/\/joeydevilla.com\/2007\/06\/11\/a-craigslist-wedding\/#comment-7647\">one from<\/a> craigslist founder Craig Newmark. Very cool. <b>Update:<\/b> Joey&#8217;s story made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/61996\/Yay-Internet#1726295\">a lot of people<\/a> happy on Metafilter too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;m just an old softie at heart, but for some reason this post by Joey &#8220;Accordion Guy&#8221; deVilla really brought a smile to my face &#8212; and almost a tear to my eye as well (don&#8217;t tell anyone). It&#8217;s about how Joey&#8217;s significant other, the Ginger Ninja, was looking through craigslist and came &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/12\/joey-devilla-and-a-craigslist-wedding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joey deVilla and a craigslist wedding&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}