{"id":50,"date":"2002-12-06T12:16:06","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2002-12-06T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T12:16:06","slug":"chalk-up-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/50","title":{"rendered":"Chalk up another one."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><IMG src=\"..\/..\/images\/voiceimages\/lovelyday.jpg\" WIDTH=\"78\" HEIGHT=\"119\" ALT=\"Happy birthday to me!\" ALIGN=\"RIGHT\">  I feel like there&#8217;s something introspective, something deeply reflective I should be writing here.  Today&#8217;s my birthday.  25, to be exact.  It&#8217;s a strange birthday, one of those not-young-but-not-old birthdays.  It feels like a pretty good place to be, and I feel like I&#8217;m doing pretty well for 25.   Trying to start up my own company, still hammering on the novel, about to ring in seven years&#8217; worth of <i>Inkblots&#8230;<\/i>  Not too shabby, no.  I didn&#8217;t get the novel or the portfolio site updated for today like I&#8217;d been hoping to, but I&#8217;m not going to stress about it.  It&#8217;s my birthday, after all.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you all in on a little secret, though.  Birthdays when your friends are scattered across the world are kind of a bummer.  Makes it kind of tricky to get everyone together to go out for a pint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like there&#8217;s something introspective, something deeply reflective I should be writing here. Today&#8217;s my birthday. 25, to be exact. It&#8217;s a strange birthday, one of those not-young-but-not-old birthdays. It feels like a pretty good place to be, and I feel like I&#8217;m doing pretty well for 25. Trying to start up my own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voice-tip-of-the-quill"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-O","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}