{"id":2517,"date":"2010-12-15T10:08:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2015-11-16T23:35:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T04:35:30","slug":"yeah-yeah-its-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2010\/12\/15\/yeah-yeah-its-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, yeah, it&#8217;s my birthday."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Today I am 36.\u00a0 Yesterday I found a gray hair, and a piece of my tooth fell off.\u00a0 A little piece, but still.<\/p>\n<p>Then my dear friend, the lovely, fecund, and irrepressible <a title=\"Dear\u00a0Justine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2010\/08\/10\/dear-justine\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Justine Schmiesing<\/a> sent me this:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Happy Birthday Dirge\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fJLo276_gHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>And now I feel better.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, my husband woke up early and took the kids to school even though it wasn\u2019t his turn, and he got me lots of presents with receipts, and we\u2019re watching <em>Dumbo<\/em> for home school today, and we\u2019re going out to my favorite restaurant tonight, and there\u2019s coffee brewing.\u00a0 But you\u2019re not here to hear about that!)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m actually going to close comments so you don\u2019t feel like you have to wish me a happy birthday.\u00a0 It\u2019s bad enough Facebook is pestering everybody about it.\u00a0 Yes, I realize I could take my birth date off my profile, but \u2013 \u2013 but then nobody would wish me a happy birthday!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am 36.\u00a0 Yesterday I found a gray hair, and a piece of my tooth fell off.\u00a0 A little piece, but still. 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