{"id":621,"date":"2009-10-31T21:33:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T01:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=621"},"modified":"2010-12-10T19:33:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:33:57","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/happy-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to me!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yup, today is my birthday, and I had a great one!\u00a0 A few highlights from today:<\/p>\n

~ While I was getting ready for toddler storytime at the library, the phone rang – I answered – someone started singing “Happy Birthday” to me, a\u00a0little offkey, but with great spirit.\u00a0 At first, I couldn’t figure out who it was…then I realized it was my big sister!\u00a0 Thanks, Jean!<\/p>\n

~ One of my favorite patrons* came in with a homemade cupcake for me with pink frosted writing on it: “Abby – HBD!”\u00a0 I share my birthday with this patron’s daughter, which definitely helped her to remember my birthday, but I was extremely touched by this cupcake.\u00a0 It totally made my day special!\u00c2\u00a0 And even better was later in the afternoon when her daughter (the birthday girl)\u00a0came in to the library, wishing me a happy birthday and jumping up and down with excitement because she turned seven today, and could get her library card today!!!<\/p>\n

~ Just after the cupcake arrived, I\u00a0was\u00a0reminded that my coworker Barbara and I also share a birthday.\u00a0 How spooky that I suddenly know all these other people with the same birthday!<\/p>\n

~ And, the very best part of the day: I came home to an awesome dinner cooked by my totally fantastic husband.\u00a0 And a great card.\u00a0 And <\/em>a gift certificate to the Concord Bookshop.\u00a0 I’m going to have some kind of fun using that gift certificate on Friday!!\u00a0 I definitely have the best husband ever.\u00a0 Definitely.<\/p>\n

So, happy birthday to me.\u00a0 This one was very mellow and not nearly so traumatic as last year’s Decade Birthday.\u00a0 Whew.<\/p>\n

* it should be noted that all<\/em>\u00a0of the library patrons are my favorites.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yup, today is my birthday, and I had a great one!\u00a0 A few highlights from today: ~ While I was getting ready for toddler storytime at the library, the phone rang – I answered – someone started singing “Happy Birthday” to me, a\u00a0little offkey, but with great spirit.\u00a0 At first, I couldn’t figure out who … Continue reading Happy Birthday to me!!!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}