{"id":3613,"date":"2011-05-29T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/05\/29\/happy-birthday-to-me\/"},"modified":"2011-05-29T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T01:04:00","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/05\/29\/happy-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"happy birthday to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/foxtongue\/5768430538\/\" title=\"morning by Foxtongue, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3116\/5768430538_ea2d2ab115.jpg\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" alt=\"morning\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday to Me.<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I went to Coney Island today and sang on the boardwalk and had my picture taken in a photobooth and saw the sideshow and went on a ferris wheel and battled with brenno at two rounds of disco bumpercars and remembered all of the lyrics to a thousand pop songs. Earlier this week I went rowing at central park, enjoyed a late night circus arts show, danced at an interactive media chiptunes concert, answered questions at a quizbowl, took self-portraits with cornell boxes, rode the staten island ferry, saw the statue of liberty, conquered half a sheep&#8217;s head for dinner and kept the skull as my only souvenir, and had my very first art gallery showing. It wasn&#8217;t all that I wanted to do, I haven&#8217;t been dancing yet, haven&#8217;t been to any all-night beauty bombs, but it has been enough that I feel alright closing today like a book and going to bed. Tomorrow, hopefully, my birthday, will be even better, as will the day after that, and the day after that. Every minute here has been a tiny miracle even when I&#8217;ve been unhappy, flowering, blossoming, treasured, better, and that, in itself, is truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to Me. I went to Coney Island today and sang on the boardwalk and had my picture taken in a photobooth and saw the sideshow and went on a ferris wheel and battled with brenno at two rounds of disco bumpercars and remembered all of the lyrics to a thousand pop songs. Earlier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2011\/05\/29\/happy-birthday-to-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;happy birthday to me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,247,1580],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photography","tag-travel","tag-verses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}