{"id":8583,"date":"2019-11-20T07:54:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T12:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=8583"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:51:01","slug":"presents-from-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/presents-from-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"presents from my birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a milestone birthday this year, and I celebrated by spending time with my husband and some of my closest friends.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=751526729\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rgsmusic.bandcamp.com\/album\/leetta\">LeEtta by Richard Glenn Schmidt<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The best present in the world was an album of secret music just for me.  The second best present was tripping over a branch while doing yard work, falling on our cement pathway, and not even having a scrape afterward.  I feel 15 again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a milestone birthday this year, and I celebrated by spending time with my husband and some of my closest friends. LeEtta by Richard Glenn Schmidt The best present in the world was an album of secret music just for me. The second best present was tripping over a branch while doing yard work,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/presents-from-my-birthday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">presents from my birthday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6005,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/04\/17\/happy-birthday-brad-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":8583,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday Brad","author":"leems","date":"April 17, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Totally not Brad's birthday, but when it was his birthday Richard (of doomedmoviethon) said, \"you should draw a picture of Brad with Michael Myers.\"\u00a0 So I did. 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