{"id":54,"date":"2005-03-25T22:59:21","date_gmt":"2005-03-26T04:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blue-monster.ath.cx\/?p=54"},"modified":"2005-03-25T22:59:37","modified_gmt":"2005-03-26T04:59:37","slug":"the-birthday-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"The birthday continues."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, this has been a birthday quite to remember. Sticky, Ryan, Drew, Yancy, and I went to the Salvation Army and searched for the gaudiest, cheapest, and coolest items we could find. Sticky and I got <a href=\"\/files\/bros.jpg\" target=blank>matching shirts<\/a>. Neato. Then, Sticky and I played with the <a href=\"\/files\/siren.jpg\" target=blank>siren<\/a> that he got me for my birthday. It&#8217;s all weather, so the only application I can think of for it is, quite obviously, to place under the hood of my car. I am <em>so<\/em> going to be arrested this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Next came the big one: a series of gifts. That&#8217;s right, a series. Fifteen gifts in a row, one in two parts. In case you don&#8217;t fully understand the situation, I was expected to guess the nature of each gift before opening it, then open it and, of course, try to understand why in the world someone would give that gift. I spent an hour on the phone with the giver making guesses, opening presents, and ultimately being made fun of. End result? My cheekbones hurt. I kid you not. In the matter of an hour I giggled, smiled, and outright laughed so much that my face decided it had had enough. <\/p>\n<p>Then sticky and I experiemented with <a href=\"\/files\/meter2.bmp\" target=blank>maxing out the school&#8217;s upload capacity<\/a>. Fun times.<\/p>\n<p>Still to come: a six pack of Guinness Extra Stout, the birthday tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, this has been a birthday quite to remember. Sticky, Ryan, Drew, Yancy, and I went to the Salvation Army and searched for the gaudiest, cheapest, and coolest items we could find. Sticky and I got matching shirts. Neato. Then, Sticky and I played with the siren that he got me for my birthday. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/?p=54\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The birthday continues.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almost.solutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}