{"id":128723,"date":"2017-11-06T02:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128723"},"modified":"2017-11-06T02:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T07:39:24","slug":"tom-hanks-helps-with-marriage-proposal-at-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/06\/tom-hanks-helps-with-marriage-proposal-at-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks helps with marriage proposal at book festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128725\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/10400067_130479981320_3436009_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128725\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/10400067_130479981320_3436009_n.jpg\" alt=\"The couple went on stage, McFarling got down on one knee and gave Young a ring. (Photo: Tom Hanks\/Facebook)\" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/10400067_130479981320_3436009_n.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/10400067_130479981320_3436009_n-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The couple went on stage, McFarling got down on one knee and gave Young a ring. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TomHanks\/photos\/a.130476361320.129864.129453496320\/130479981320\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo: <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TomHanks\/\">Tom Hanks\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas\u2014 Oscar-winning actor and author Tom Hanks used a Texas Book Festival appearance to help a couple get engaged.<\/p>\n<p>Hanks was in Austin on Saturday and spoke to hundreds of listeners about his new book \u201cUncommon Type: Some Stories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hanks at one point told the crowd that he was bored of taking their questions and wanted to ask one himself.<\/p>\n<p>Hanks then pulled out a piece of paper and said that a man in the crowd, Ryan McFarling, had a question for a woman named Nikki Young. Hanks said the question was: \u201cNikki, will you marry me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The couple went on stage, McFarling got down on one knee and gave Young a ring.<\/p>\n<p>Hanks then hugged the newly engaged woman and offered his best wishes to the couple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas\u2014 Oscar-winning actor and author Tom Hanks used a Texas Book Festival appearance to help a couple get engaged. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[31381,31380],"class_list":["post-128723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-oscar-winning-actor-and-author-tom-hanks","tag-tom-hanks-helps-with-marriage-proposal-at-book-festival","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}