{"id":23504,"date":"2023-01-16T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=23504"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T13:08:33","slug":"i-always-wanted-a-doctor-but-fell-in-love-with-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/?p=23504","title":{"rendered":"I always wanted a doctor but fell in love with an artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Bash Fahad Mutumba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"17\">As a teenage girl, Divine Akimana always imagined herself with a doctor husband. However, she fell in love at first sight with an artist workmate of hers. She shared her story with us. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B2C3E0B4-F7A9-45AD-A029-09D27B0D2E98.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B2C3E0B4-F7A9-45AD-A029-09D27B0D2E98.jpeg 1125w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B2C3E0B4-F7A9-45AD-A029-09D27B0D2E98-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B2C3E0B4-F7A9-45AD-A029-09D27B0D2E98-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B2C3E0B4-F7A9-45AD-A029-09D27B0D2E98-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/B2C3E0B4-F7A9-45AD-A029-09D27B0D2E98-750x500.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"17\">\u201cI am a poet and author of three books, &#8220;Scars that shape us&#8221;, &#8221; My vows to love\u201d, and \u201cA broken heals&#8221;; which are all available on Amazon. I am mother to one boy, Mugerwa Nshuti Jaiden and wife to a wonderful man and artist Christophe Turikumwe.\u201d Divine says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"17\">\u201cI always imagined myself with a doctor husband because they seemed serious\/responsible about their life and kind; since they save lives. I wanted those things in my life, especially since they were the things I did not see in my father. I also loved artists since they seemed cool, but I saw them as players so I was scared of being hurt by one.\u201d She adds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-removefontsize=\"true\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"17\">The lovebirds were both 29 when they first met. <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3ZZnsiP\">Click to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bash Fahad Mutumba As a teenage girl, Divine Akimana always imagined herself with a doctor husband. However, she fell in love at first sight with an artist workmate of hers. She shared her story with us. \u201cI am a poet and author of three books, &#8220;Scars that shape us&#8221;, &#8221; My vows to love\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[524],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1784],"class_list":["post-23504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-stories"],"authors":[{"term_id":1784,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"weddingadmin","display_name":"weddingadmin","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/cd3996c46efafdc40969010bfd78c8e4dda9d99318e7dd6403983ea0dadbcfce?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23910,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23504\/revisions\/23910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23504"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mywedding.co.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=23504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}