{"id":262,"date":"2026-08-29T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/?p=262"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:06:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:06:45","slug":"diary-entry-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/2026\/08\/29\/diary-entry-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary Entry 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-262-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/diaryentry12.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/diaryentry12.mp3\">https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/diaryentry12.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>It has been a fun day. The longer I am here the more I think this is the perfect place to live. I was sitting on a log near the creek thinking about life when Palesa came up behind me and wanted to know if I wanted to see a wedding ceremony. Oh, course my answer was yes.<br \/>\nThe Sequoia tribe has an interesting way of finalizing wedding vows. The ceremony was actually quite beautiful. The bride and the groom were lovely and looked so happy. Like our wedding ceremonies back at Bear Country there were lit candles, a lovely speech, songs about love and blessings. Everyone gave the happy couple a blessing of happiness even the smaller children. At the end of the ceremony the couple stripped naked, jumped into the waterfalls and bathed each other as everyone cheered them on. It was very sweet and a unique experience to watch.<br \/>\nAfter the ceremony Palesa asked me about the ceremony Tony and I had. She was just curious about how my world handled weddings. I had to tell her that Tony and I aren\u2019t married. He is my friend. A couple of times he has been more than my friend. We have a bond to each other, but we aren\u2019t married. Palesa was a little surprised. She said the way we act toward each other she just assumed we had made a lifetime commitment. Maybe someday Tony and I will make a lifetime commitment to each other but for now I am still hurting over the death of Yates. Tony has made it clear that he loves me, but he understands that I need a little time.\u00a0 \u00a0Madie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a fun day. The longer I am here the more I think this is the perfect place to live. I was sitting on a log near the creek thinking about life when Palesa came up behind me and wanted to know if I wanted to see a wedding ceremony. Oh, course my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,6,7,5,8,4],"tags":[16,10,13,12,14,11,15],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-fiction","category-madie-beartri","category-marsha-loftis","category-podcast","category-serial-fiction","category-story","tag-diary","tag-fiction","tag-madie-beartir","tag-marsha-loftis","tag-podcast","tag-serial-fiction","tag-story"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madiebeartri.com\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}