{"id":3572,"date":"2007-04-09T12:36:51","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T16:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2007\/04\/09\/3572"},"modified":"2007-04-09T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T16:36:51","slug":"novel-dating-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/novel-dating-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel dating technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oddlyEnoughNews\/idUSL0912761120070409?feedType=RSS\" rel=\"external\">Reuters Oddly Enough news:<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/phone_date.jpg\" alt=\"wedding photo\" title=\"David Brown and Michelle Kitson on their wedding day\" class=\"pic_100px\" \/>David Brown, 24, says he woke up one morning after a night out with friends with a telephone number constantly running through his head. He decided to contact it, sending a message saying &#8220;Did I meet you last night?.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Random recipient Michelle Kitson was confused and wary at first but decided to reply and the two began exchanging messages. Eventually they met and fell in love.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really weird but I was absolutely hooked,&#8221; Kitson told the Daily Mail newspaper. &#8220;My mum and dad kept saying &#8216;But he could be an axe murderer&#8217;, but I knew there was something special about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a long courtship, the oddly matched couple &#8212; he&#8217;s six foot seven inches tall and she&#8217;s five foot four &#8212; have just returned from their honeymoon in the Indian resort of Goa.<\/p>\n<p>A love-struck Brown said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve no idea how I ended up with her number in my head &#8212; it&#8217;s only a few digits different from mine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=447429&#038;in_page_id=1770\" rel=\"external\"><strong>Read about how they met&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Oddly Enough news: A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and then sending her a text message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}