{"id":1400,"date":"2009-08-18T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T23:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2009-08-18T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T23:09:06","slug":"not-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2009\/08\/not-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, 1969 is the day on which I was set to make my entrance into the world.  Save to say I didn&#8217;t (big hint: Hawaii and I share a birthday and it&#8217;s turning an age that ends in zero this year too).<\/p>\n<p>August 18th&#8230;that&#8217;s the reason my Mom didn&#8217;t go to the titular <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock_Festival\">Woodstock<\/a> because even then my mother could anticipate a traffic jam.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t have been a bad day to have been born:<\/p>\n<p>1920: Women&#8217;s suffrage amendment is ratified. (Yeah! We have the vote!)<br \/>\n1931: Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,000th game.<br \/>\n1960: The Beatles give their first public performance.<br \/>\n1958: <em>Lolita<\/em>, a book that will have a profound impact on popular culture in my country, by Vladimir Nabokov is published.<br \/>\n1963: James Meredith, the first black person to attend the University of Mississippi, graduates with a degree in political science.<\/p>\n<p>Today is not my birthday.  Maybe it should have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, 1969 is the day on which I was set to make my entrance into the world. Save to say I didn&#8217;t (big hint: Hawaii and I share a birthday and it&#8217;s turning an age that ends in zero this year too). August 18th&#8230;that&#8217;s the reason my Mom didn&#8217;t go to the titular Woodstock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-about-me","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}