{"id":4198,"date":"2008-05-03T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/03\/bittersweet-birthday\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:28:14","slug":"bittersweet-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/03\/bittersweet-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5563,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wishlistr.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308112517\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.wishlistr.com\\\/djwudi\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wishlistr.com\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 08:48:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 13:38:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 14:30:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-09 16:33:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 11:51:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 01:33:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 01:33:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5578,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/o\\\/registry\\\/1P4IU0ESEJFTS&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/o\\\/registry\\\/1P4IU0ESEJFTS&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As of today, I&#8217;m officially old enough to be elected President of the United States &#8212; 35. I believe this is my last age-related milestone before official senior citizen status, though there may be something I&#8217;m not remembering.<\/p>\n<p>Any birthday festivities are being delayed, though, for a few reasons. Firstly, I&#8217;m spending part of the day shooting a wedding for a friend&#8217;s daughter. They asked me to be their photographer last year sometime, I agreed, and then later on when they told me the finalized date&#8230;well, I didn&#8217;t want to back out and disappoint them, and it&#8217;ll still be a fun way to spend the afternoon. Prairie and I just figured that we&#8217;d do our own little celebration here at home in the evening (though probably saving birthday cake for a later day, as there&#8217;ll likely be wedding cake during the day).<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Prairie&#8217;s grandmother passed away earlier this week, and Prairie flew down to California to be with her family for the funeral &#8212; which is today as well. She says that she&#8217;s enjoying the trip, as even though it&#8217;s for a funeral, it&#8217;s also the first time in years that that entire clan has assembled (they had dinner for 28 people last night). She&#8217;s also taken a ton of pictures of everything, and says there&#8217;s a chance she might actually fill the 1Gb card we keep in her camera &#8212; a major event, as she tends to take about one picture for every 50-100 that I do (I&#8217;m so proud of her)!<\/p>\n<p>So, definitely not a Worst Birthday EVAR, but not a Best Birthday EVAR either. Prairie comes back in to Seattle tomorrow afternoon, so we&#8217;ll probably go out to lunch somewhere and then come home to let her crash out. We&#8217;ll find a time for birthday celebrations and cake later on, perhaps next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, if anyone <del>feels sorry for me<\/del> <del>has too much money and wants to spend some on me<\/del> <del>is overly generous<\/del> feels benevolent and wants to get me a present, I have a couple wishlists available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wishlistr.com\/djwudi\/\" title=\"Wishlistr: djwudi's wishlist\">Wishlistr<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/o\/registry\/1P4IU0ESEJFTS\" title=\"Amazon: djwudi's wishlist\">Amazon<\/a>. Hey, it&#8217;s my birthday, I&#8217;m allowed to do this, right? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, I&#8217;m officially old enough to be elected President of the United States &#8212; 35. I believe this is my last age-related milestone before official senior citizen status, though there may be something I&#8217;m not remembering.<\/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-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}