{"id":772,"date":"2007-10-17T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/10\/it-begins\/"},"modified":"2007-10-17T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T15:55:00","slug":"it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/it-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"It Begins&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it is not until <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">demain&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Today Ned sent me pre-birthday flowers:  <span style=\"color: rgb(153, 153, 255); font-weight: bold;\">blue hydrangea<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 204);\">lavender-blue roses<\/span> and rolled-up bluish-purple calla-lily type things!  Oh, NS!!!!!!!  Stunning!!!!!!!!!  And perfect with the festooned chiffon that is still hanging from the ceilings down here.<\/p>\n<p>Several cards arrived from friends and family, one with a gorgeous poem in it (thank you Melinda) and some gifts are sitting there, thank you Sarai, CB, M &#038; D, B &#038; A xxxxxxxxxox. <\/p>\n<p>A friend invited me for champagne to celebrate both of our birthdays, and one other friend&#8217;s!!!<\/p>\n<p>Also, my red and gold costume is here!!!!! A little tight, so I&#8217;m starving for the next few days.  (Nah, not really, we&#8217;ll simply adjust the lighting.)<\/p>\n<p>And miraculously&#8230; <span style=\"color: rgb(204, 51, 204); font-weight: bold;\">Natty sent me a birthday email AND made a present<\/span> for me in school!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh Sweet Guy!!!  Oh, it&#8217;s already perfect and it has not even happened yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it is not until demain&#8230; Today Ned sent me pre-birthday flowers: blue hydrangea and lavender-blue roses and rolled-up bluish-purple calla-lily type things! Oh, NS!!!!!!! Stunning!!!!!!!!! And perfect with the festooned chiffon that is still hanging from the ceilings down here. Several cards arrived from friends and family, one with a gorgeous poem in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-cs","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}