{"id":794,"date":"2005-03-02T02:08:02","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wordpress\/?p=794"},"modified":"2005-03-02T02:08:02","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T07:08:02","slug":"birthday-unconscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/birthday-unconscious\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday unconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s March 2, the anniversary of my birth by now.<\/p>\n<p>This year is pretty weird, though.  Usually, I&#8217;m pretty keyed up and getting my neurotic flow going days before the birthday.  But this year, I&#8217;m so busy thinking about a thousand fucking other things, I&#8217;m largely oblivious.<\/p>\n<p>One of my friends even offered to take me out tomorrow and for a split second, I thought, why Wednesday?  Then I remembered.  Same thing with the package I got from my big sis (which was actually sweet and kind of emotional (i.e. not in keeping with our usual relationship)).  I got it and thought for a second, &#8220;Why is Sis sending me a package?&#8221;  Luckily, the birthday card inside tipped me off.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t remembered at all earlier in the week, when I scheduled some needed rehearsal time for Thursday&#8217;s show at the Walsh Brothers.  This may be the first time in my cognitive existence that I forgot what day my birthday was coming up on.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, I guess at 41 what fucking difference does it make, right?<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/birthday-unconscious\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it&#8217;s March 2, the anniversary of my birth by now. This year is pretty weird, though. Usually, I&#8217;m pretty keyed up and getting my neurotic flow going days before the birthday. But this year, I&#8217;m so busy thinking about a thousand fucking other things, I&#8217;m largely oblivious. One of my friends even offered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8wYr-cO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-rob.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}