When 26-year-old Yuki told her friends she was marrying a 70-year-old man named Mr. Kenji, jaws hit the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group chat exploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Comments ranged from:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Yuki wasn\u2019t budging. She\u2019d met Kenji on a beach in Okinawa during what she called her \u201cquarter-life breakdown.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She\u2019d just quit her job, found out her ex was now dating her former boss (ouch), and was ready to<\/p>\n\n\n\n
become a hermit who spoke only to sea turtles. Instead, she met Kenji, who offered her a cold lemonade, a listening ear, and a chair in the shade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not a bad trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They talked. They walked. They even danced barefoot in the sand to old Elvis songs played from his phone speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten days later, they were married. Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When 26-year-old Yuki told her friends she was marrying a 70-year-old man named Mr. Kenji, jaws hit the floor. The group chat exploded. Comments ranged from: But Yuki wasn\u2019t budging. She\u2019d met Kenji on a beach in Okinawa during what she called her \u201cquarter-life breakdown.\u201d She\u2019d just quit her job, found out her ex was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4298,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}