{"id":981,"date":"2007-03-25T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2007\/03\/sweet-birthday\/"},"modified":"2012-05-27T08:57:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T12:57:38","slug":"sweet-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/sweet-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Benji&#8217;s 9th birthday.  It was also Laura&#8217;s.  All this nachas, and yet I was very, very anxious, and then sad.  I felt mostly like I did not know what to do to make it a special day for Benji, who is so particular about what he likes and doesn&#8217;t like.  He just wanted to build his new Lego sets, nothing else.  I tried to rent a Moonbounce, but it was too short notice. <\/p>\n<p>The day picked up after Ben finished his huge Lego set, a sand crawler from Star Wars, and then Ned and I took a nap together, fingers touching.  This bit of physical comfort was &#8220;like a witamin,&#8221; as my Polish grandma used to say.  I woke up feeling so much better, and ready to make a cake.  Below is the finished product, and the end of the day, which was a good one, strange morning mood notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tabblo\"><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"\/tabblo\/232517\"><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/tabblo\/232517\/thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Tabblo: Ben's Birthday Cake\" height=\"472\" width=\"472\" \/><br \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was Benji&#8217;s 9th birthday. It was also Laura&#8217;s. All this nachas, and yet I was very, very anxious, and then sad. I felt mostly like I did not know what to do to make it a special day for Benji, who is so particular about what he likes and doesn&#8217;t like. He just wanted [&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-981","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-fP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}