{"id":16266,"date":"2017-12-13T13:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=16266"},"modified":"2017-12-13T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T22:02:43","slug":"surprise-bill-kurtis-donna-lapietra-getting-married-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/12\/13\/surprise-bill-kurtis-donna-lapietra-getting-married-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra getting married today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16272\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/12\/13\/surprise-bill-kurtis-donna-lapietra-getting-married-today\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16272\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16272\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bill-Donna-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bill-Donna-1.jpg 700w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bill-Donna-1-300x200.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bill-Donna-1-500x334.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bill-Donna-1-150x100.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bill-Donna-1-400x267.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Bill-Donna-1-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra (Photo: J. Geil Photography)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 40-year romance of Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra will culminate in matrimony today.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago\u2019s legendary power couple will tie the knot before Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, surrounded by a small group of friends, Kurtis confirmed in a call just before the ceremony.\u00a0\u201cIt just seems like the right time,\u201d he said. \u201cForty years is a nice warm-up period.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>LaPietra turns 68 today. Kurtis is 77.<\/p>\n<p>The two have been inseparable since their days together at CBS-owned WBBM-Channel 2, where Kurtis was the principal anchorman and LaPietra was executive producer of the 10 p.m. newscast. With homes in Lincoln Park and north suburban Mettawa, they\u2019re also business partners in Chicago-based Kurtis Productions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it started, neither one of us felt compelled to have to get married,\u201d Kurtis recalled of their romance. \u201cShe was the hippie, I was the straight guy. And it was a kind of badge of courage that we were living the life \u2014 the youth culture back then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time we thought we would get married, we\u2019d say: \u2018Hey, if it\u2019s not broken, why fix it?\u2019\u00a0I think the secret of our relationship was the job. We loved what we were doing and working together. That\u2019s been a strength throughout. You know, we\u2019ve been through so much. And you get older. So here it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any honeymoon plans? \u201cThe honeymoon will be in the office,\u201d Kurtis laughed. \u201cHardly a bump in the road!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 40-year romance of Bill Kurtis and Donna LaPietra will culminate in matrimony today. Chicago\u2019s legendary power couple will tie the knot before Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, surrounded by a small group of friends, Kurtis confirmed in a call just before the ceremony.\u00a0\u201cIt just seems like the right time,\u201d he said. \u201cForty years... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2017\/12\/13\/surprise-bill-kurtis-donna-lapietra-getting-married-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16275,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16266\/revisions\/16275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}