{"id":2374,"date":"2004-04-03T02:11:58","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/03\/t-minus-one-month-and-counting\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:24:46","slug":"t-minus-one-month-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/03\/t-minus-one-month-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"T minus one month and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3014,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.alaska.net\\\/~royce&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11395,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.chuckecheese.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260311160156\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.chuckecheese.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The first few days in May were usually busy days in my family. My birthday is May 3rd (I&#8217;ll be 31 this year), my little brother Kevin&#8217;s is the next day (we&#8217;re three years and one day apart &#8212; he&#8217;ll be 28), and my best friend from fourth grade on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaska.net\/~royce\/\" title=\"Royce's amazing and NIGH-INDESTRUCTIBLE Norwegian Kickboxing Page!\">Royce<\/a>, has his birthday on the 5th (he&#8217;ll be 31 also).<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m sure there were some times when Kevin and I had separate parties, there were many, many years of joint parties also. Often my mom had the unenviable task of handling these more or less on her own, too &#8212; dad was flying in the Air National Guard, and his &#8220;one weekend a month&#8221; happened to fall on the first weekend, so he often had to leave mom to handle two excited little kids while he went off flying.<\/p>\n<p>One year, on a whim, I entered a &#8220;guess the number of jellybeans in the jar&#8221; contest at the Anchorage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuckecheese.com\/\" title=\"Chuck E. Cheese's world wide party!\">Chuck-E-Cheese<\/a>, and wonder of wonders, I actually won! The prize was a free birthday party, so that year Kevin and I had our parties officiated over by a giant rat. As Chuck-E-Cheese is a pizza parlor, mom and dad had an idea that &#8220;seemed like a good idea at the time&#8221;, and when the pizza arrived, they popped birthday cake candles into the pizza instead of into a cake. We laughed, blew them out, and started gobbling down slices of pizza.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, what parents hadn&#8217;t thought about was the heat of the pizza. While the candles were sitting in the pizza, not only were they melting from the top down due to the flame&#8230;but from the bottom up, too. I can&#8217;t really recommend a pepperoni-and-candle-wax pizza. It&#8217;s a bit more chewy than pizza is supposed to be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Teclo&#8221; by Harvey, P.J. from the album <em>To Bring You My Love<\/em> (1994, 4:58).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first few days in May were usually busy days in my family. My birthday is May 3rd (I&#8217;ll be 31 this year), my little brother Kevin&#8217;s is the next day (we&#8217;re three years and one day apart &mdash; he&#8217;ll be 28), and my best friend from fourth grade on, Royce, has his birthday on the 5th (he&#8217;ll be 31 also).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}