{"id":307,"date":"2005-08-03T11:08:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T11:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2005-08-03T11:08:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T11:08:29","slug":"happy_birthday_anne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/08\/03\/happy_birthday_anne\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Anne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have surmised from the subject line above, this is the day my Significant Other first showed her face to the world. And I&#8217;ve got to be honest, I am woefully unprepared for its arrival this year. I&#8217;ve been in a near-panic for a couple of months as I have tried (and most likely failed) to think of something really good to give her. You see, we&#8217;ve been together for a long time, so a lot of the obvious tokens have already been exchanged. We&#8217;ve also both reached that age when you pretty much have everything you <i>need<\/i>, and you pretty much have most of the little objects you <i>want<\/i>, too. Or at least you&#8217;re in a position to just go ahead and buy them for yourself as they come to your attention. So what does that leave one to offer as a gift?<\/p>\n<p>Well, how about a public display of good wishes and affection? It&#8217;s the best idea I&#8217;ve come up with so far, and it saves me the trouble of actually going shopping, so here goes:<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Honey, I hope you have a very happy day and I love you.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/center><br \/>\nWhat do you think, Loyal Readers, is that enough? Or do I still need to find some kind of tangible gift, too? (Just kidding, folks. Well, mostly kidding. I really am lousy at thinking up good gift ideas&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might have surmised from the subject line above, this is the day my Significant Other first showed her face to the world. And I&#8217;ve got to be honest, I am woefully unprepared for its arrival this year. I&#8217;ve been in a near-panic for a couple of months as I have tried (and most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}