{"id":138,"date":"2008-09-29T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-09-29T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:11:10","slug":"birthday-upcoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Upcoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, in a few weeks, I turn 29.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t seem that old until you see athletes and celebrities younger than your youngest brother (21).&nbsp; After a while it starts to get creepy.&nbsp; So be it.&nbsp; Around this time of year, I&#8217;m asked what I want as a gift.&nbsp; Year after year, I answer with the same&#8230;nothing.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not really into birthdays anymore.&nbsp; I&#8217;d probably forget about it if I wasn&#8217;t reminded.&nbsp; Having a birthday on the &#8220;real&#8221; Columbus Day (not the Monday its celebrated on) makes it somewhat easy to remind myself, but I think I&#8217;ll take that Monday off this year to be with my wife for the morning and go to breakfast or something. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what do I want?&nbsp; Season 1 and 2 of Heroes, some Good Eats DVDs, new tires, 2 million dollars, a trip to Egypt, a Nissan GT-R.&nbsp; Will I get any of these?&nbsp; Nah, probably not, but you asked.&nbsp; I tell you what, one think I would love is an all-day pass to a day spa for my wife.&nbsp; Save it for after the baby, and let her just go unwind.&nbsp; That would make me happy.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, in a few weeks, I turn 29.&nbsp; It doesn&#8217;t seem that old until you see athletes and celebrities younger than your youngest brother (21).&nbsp; After a while it starts to get creepy.&nbsp; So be it.&nbsp; Around this time of year, I&#8217;m asked what I want as a gift.&nbsp; Year after year, I answer with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patientsurvivingpatience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}