{"id":48669,"date":"2013-11-20T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/48669\/60-wonderful-yearsorcelebrating-60-years-of-marriage\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T10:35:26","slug":"60-wonderful-yearsorcelebrating-60-years-of-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/11\/20\/60-wonderful-yearsorcelebrating-60-years-of-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"60 wonderful years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archie and Dulcie Smith, from Solheim, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The pair first met by chance at the annual ball held at the Wanderer&#8217;s Club.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Archie was invited to the ball by his friend, only because Dulice&#8217;s original dance partner had come down with chicken pox.<\/p>\n<p>The chance meeting blossomed and the pair were engaged in 1952 and married on November 14, 1953.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They put down roots when they moved to Germiston in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>The two used to enjoy hiking the area together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hiking is the most beautiful hobby a husband and wife can share,&#8221; said Archie.<\/p>\n<p>The couple has been blessed with four children, three sons (Bruce, Gavin and Andr\u00e9), a daughter (Janet Reilly) and six beautiful grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>Three years ago Dulice moved into an old age home in the area, where she is receiving treatment for advanced Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Archie visits her each week.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='cc0e12fa2fbc6425a7a810921be3eac3'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrating 60 years of marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":48958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,7,2],"tags":[2239,2241,8297,2240,1315],"class_list":["post-48669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-60-years","tag-celebrat","tag-community-2","tag-love","tag-wedding-anniversary"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["60 years","celebrat","community","love","wedding anniversary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}