{"id":2390,"date":"2010-09-22T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T21:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2011-03-31T16:25:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T23:25:45","slug":"tying-the-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/tying-the-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"Tying the Knot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2433\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/tying-the-knot\/laurie-sky-writing-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2433\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/laurie-sky-writing1.jpg\" alt=\"Sky written proposal beseeching the hand of Laurie (formerly Kraft) Pepitone.\" title=\"Sky written proposal beseeching the hand of Laurie (formerly Kraft) Pepitone.\" width=\"480\" height=\"114\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/laurie-sky-writing1.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/laurie-sky-writing1-300x71.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/laurie-sky-writing1-150x35.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Last month, Southern California residents looked up to see this sky-written proposal from Mike Pepitone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/tying-the-knot\/laurie-wedding\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/laurie-wedding.jpg\" alt=\"Laurie Kraft and Mike Pepitone Get Hitched\" title=\"Laurie Kraft and Mike Pepitone Get Hitched\" width=\"240\" height=\"206\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/laurie-wedding.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/laurie-wedding-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Pepitone marries California Native Operations Chief, Laurie Kraft, while Lee Klein (with California Native Official Wedding Hat) officiates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nOn August 21, a beautiful Saturday afternoon, California Native\u2019s Operations Manager, Laurie Kraft, married her longtime sweetheart, Mike Pepitone, at a poolside ceremony at their home in Torrance, California. California Native President Lee Klein performed the ceremony. The day was highlighted by a long awaited proposal written in the clear blue sky by five sky-writing airplanes.<\/p>\n<p>A native-born Californian, Laurie has been with The California Native for over 18 years. Her family, including sons Jimmy and Jason, came down from Northern California and Washington for the event. Mike, who is an aircraft mechanic for Federal Express, welcomed his mother and family from their native Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>We wish them a very happy and successful married life together.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 21, a beautiful Saturday afternoon, California Native\u2019s Operations Manager, Laurie Kraft, married her longtime sweetheart, Mike Pepitone, at a poolside ceremony at their home in Torrance, California. California Native President Lee Klein performed the ceremony. The day was highlighted by a long awaited proposal written in the clear blue sky by five sky-writing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/tying-the-knot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tying the Knot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[33,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calnative.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}