{"id":7624,"date":"2013-04-12T23:31:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2013-04-12T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T06:31:58","slug":"exciting-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7624","title":{"rendered":"Exciting birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is my birthday and I should&#8217;ve made a list of the things I wanted to do. I suppose I did make a short list and I nailed it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Take the day off work.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I meant to do a couple more things, but whatever. I sat on my ass and went out to lunch with a buddy from work at a place that is run by an old grade-school classmate. The only things I did today were lame, like answering all the birthday wishes I got on Facebook (which weren&#8217;t that many) and trying to undo whatever my computer is doing to scramble the music in iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>But it is my birthday and it is an off year. I started out the day trying to listen to Marc Maron&#8217;s interview with Johnathan Winters and quit just in time to find out that he passed away today. Closer to home, my sister&#8217;s goofy old basenji Dede had a seizure at 4AM and had to be put to sleep early this morning. And as my mom predicted, my sister didn&#8217;t cry when my dad died, but cried when her dog died.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray. One year closer to my AARP card. I suppose it beats the alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is my birthday and I should&#8217;ve made a list of the things I wanted to do. I suppose I did make a short list and I nailed it: Take the day off work. I meant to do a couple more things, but whatever. I sat on my ass and went out to lunch with a buddy from work at a place that is run by an old grade-school classmate. The only things I did today were lame, like answering all the birthday wishes I got on Facebook (which weren&#8217;t that many) and trying to undo whatever my computer is doing to scramble the music in iTunes. But it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exciting birthday!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}