{"id":752,"date":"2001-11-23T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2001-11-23T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=752"},"modified":"2001-11-23T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2001-11-23T08:01:00","slug":"dont_you_wish_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/dont_you_wish_y\/","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t you wish you had a friend like me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s my friend meghan&#8217;s 30th birthday this coming monday.  we&#8217;ve known each other since we were in tenth grade.  that&#8217;s half her life.  half. her. life.  ugh.  so, being the wonderful friend and person that i am, i asked her a couple of weeks ago what she wanted for her birthday.  her answer?<br \/>\n&#8220;i want to be 29.&#8221;<br \/>\nuh, meg?  yeah, okay.  i grinned and repeated the question.<br \/>\n&#8220;i want to be 29.&#8221;<br \/>\ni sighed, grinned again and told her that i&#8217;d do it if i could.  that&#8217;s when we started playing tetris and the conversation faded from my mind.  until about a week ago when i was contemplating her upcoming day while looking at the slippers i&#8217;d bought her as a gift.  i was musing over what else i could get her.<br \/>\nshe wants to be 29&#8230;<br \/>\nso, i&#8217;ve obtained her birth certificate by very <i>alias<\/i> means, altered the year of her birth, framed the new document and shall give her the gift she asked for.  she can be 29 for another year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s my friend meghan&#8217;s 30th birthday this coming monday. we&#8217;ve known each other since we were in tenth grade. that&#8217;s half her life. half. her. life. ugh. so, being the wonderful friend and person that i am, i asked her a couple of weeks ago what she wanted for her birthday. her answer? &#8220;i want <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/dont_you_wish_y\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}