{"id":2409,"date":"2010-02-09T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2010-02-09T14:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T18:29:00","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=2409","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/4344238794\/\" title=\"2010 Dad gifts by emisanboo, on Flickr\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4016\/4344238794_53df3c33b5_m.jpg\" height=\"150\" alt=\"2010 Dad gifts\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Got up, rolled out of bed&#8230; and confronted with a horrifying stench, immediately cleaned the catbox.  Well, the rest of my birthday had nowhere to go but up!<\/p>\n<p>And indeed it has.  Birthday gifts from Dad: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hornblower_(TV_series)\" target=\"blank\">Horatio Hornblower DVD box set<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2000_Year_Old_Man\" target=\"blank\">2000 Year Old Man<\/a> CD set by Carl Reiner and Mel Books.  I&#8217;ve had my eye on these for a while, so they&#8217;re very welcome.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/4343501737\/\" title=\"2010 birthday cake by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4069\/4343501737_094e76b394_m.jpg\" height=\"150\" alt=\"2010 birthday cake\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBirthday gifts from Mom:  the same birthday cake I&#8217;ve gotten every single year since I was about five years old.  And I LOVE IT.  Not pictured is the wonderful combo birthday\/Christmas gift she got me this year which needs its own post.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a raging headache all day long, but it is not dampening my spirits.  All I can think is how fortunate I am to have my family so close, in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n<p>I leave you with an audio clip of the 2000 Year Old Man and my permission to take today off in honor of my birthday, which is (or should be) a national holiday.  Many happy returns of the day!<\/p>\n<p><lj-embed id=\"50\"\/><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got up, rolled out of bed&#8230; and confronted with a horrifying stench, immediately cleaned the catbox. Well, the rest of my birthday had nowhere to go but up! And indeed it has. Birthday gifts from Dad: Horatio Hornblower DVD box set and 2000 Year Old Man CD set by Carl Reiner and Mel Books. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}