{"id":72,"date":"2008-12-03T22:10:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T21:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/?p=72"},"modified":"2008-12-04T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:11:31","slug":"boy-gets-girl-boy-gets-kicked-out-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/2008\/12\/boy-gets-girl-boy-gets-kicked-out-of-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy gets girl, Boy gets kicked out of country&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>12\/3\/2008<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My life is basically a sappy love story with a lot of background noise.\u00a0 My wife is an amazing, intelligent,\u00a0beautiful lady with amazing drive, and a heart big enough\u00a0to forgive all my many\u00a0flaws.\u00a0\u00a0 She is studying Spanish at one of the top universities in the country and even there she excels.\u00a0 She&#8217;s currently in Spain doing research on a <a href=\"http:\/\/us.fulbrightonline.org\/about.html\">Fulbright grant<\/a>\u00a0for Spanish swordplay and honor in Golden Age Spain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/mary_curtis_option3.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74\" title=\"mary_curtis_option3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/mary_curtis_option3-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"A pretty girl with a sword and a fencing book... Yep... I'm lucky!\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/mary_curtis_option3-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/mary_curtis_option3.jpg 545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pretty girl with a sword and a fencing book... Yep... I&#39;m lucky!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We had always intended that I would spend the year with her in Spain, and my company (Digi International) has been really wonderful working with me to try and get a work permit and visa to enter Spain. It&#8217;s unprecedented how much they have done to\u00a0assist in\u00a0this goal of spending time in Spain with her while she digs through the libraries of Spain looking for clues.<\/p>\n<p>Everything was going very well and in November, I returned to vote in the election and finish the final stages of the paperwork for my work visa.\u00a0 Unfortunately, between the time I submitted my application and November 4th, the global economy went into a\u00a0rocketsled-powered\u00a0deathspiral into the nether regions of Hell. Spain already had a huge population surge due to immigration and they stopped issuing any new work permits for foreign workers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw-world.de\/dw\/article\/0,2144,3748227,00.html\">Article on European Work Visa Restrictions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <strong>November 14, 2008<\/strong> my work permit was denied.\u00a0 My company asked for another meeting and an appeal with special consideration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, <strong>November 21, 2008<\/strong> that appeal was also denied, which\u00a0triggered a new plan to travel there on tourist visas for up to 90 days in any single 6 month period.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <strong>December 3, 2008<\/strong> I was informed that this also could be an issue and Digi didn&#8217;t want me to do this.\u00a0 In the space of three weeks I&#8217;ve gone from spending\u00a0my dream\u00a0year with my wife in Spain, to being:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wifeless<\/li>\n<li>homeless<\/li>\n<li>dogless<\/li>\n<li>carless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s a tough break for us and I&#8217;m a bit glum about the whole thing.\u00a0 Seriously, I married pretty well and when you get to go home to a girl like that, losing her for 10 months is pretty painful.\u00a0 Fortunately, my life is a cheesy love story so\u00a0if the boy loses the girl, we\u00a0know how it is going to end.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>P.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/3\/2008 My life is basically a sappy love story with a lot of background noise.\u00a0 My wife is an amazing, intelligent,\u00a0beautiful lady with amazing drive, and a heart big enough\u00a0to forgive all my many\u00a0flaws.\u00a0\u00a0 She is studying Spanish at one of the top universities in the country and even there she excels.\u00a0 She&#8217;s currently in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puckandmary.com\/blog_puck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}