{"id":146,"date":"2008-04-16T12:41:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/happy-birthday\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T12:41:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T17:41:28","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to post anything specifically commemorating the event (I was too busy <a href=\"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/zombies-and-dimwits\/\" title=\"Mmm, pop culture autopsies!\" target=\"_blank\">dissecting<\/a> the centurion-related pre-game lunacy), but yesterday was the one year anniversary of HiR:tb.   Postings were sporadic at best in the first few months, but all in all I&#8217;m pleased with myself so far for sticking with this project to date &#8211; I have a bit of a history of beginning things and then losing interest and moving on to something else.   It&#8217;s been a fun year, and I&#8217;ve made some friends in the course of forcing myself to write a little something at least every couple of days.  I have amused myself, if no one else, and I have managed to craft a sentence that includes the phrase &#8220;sandwich gobbling cowboys&#8221;;  this literary achievement alone, I feel, justifies the continued existence of my little portal into teh Intarwebs.<\/p>\n<p>This interesting little fellow also turned 15 last week.  Yes, fifteen.  You can see by the expression on his face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10174550@N05\/2364804685\/\" title=\"Poppy Crazy Runs by warwalker_2000, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2389\/2364804685_1766fa6bfb.jpg\" alt=\"Poppy Crazy Runs\" align=\"left\" height=\"250\" width=\"375\" \/><\/a>that he&#8217;s Juniorvania&#8217;s happiest new resident.  Currently leading the civilized world in the little-known category of &#8220;number of twigs, sticks, leaves, branches and other assorted woodland detritus tracked into a residential home&#8221;, Popeye keeps busy with his hobbies:  avoiding the cat, rubbing himself along the length and breadth of every available piece of furniture, and attacking that damn stuffed turtle like it&#8217;s Satan himself.   He is available to appear at Conferences, Symposia and Hockey Banquets for a reasonable honorarium, to be provided in unmarked non-consecutive cookies prior to the engagement in question.   Prospective clients please be advised: his green room rider includes a non-negotiable requirement for suitable napping facilities and no warranties are made as to the absence or control of flatulence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to post anything specifically commemorating the event (I was too busy dissecting the centurion-related pre-game lunacy), but yesterday was the one year anniversary of HiR:tb. Postings were sporadic at best in the first few months, but all in all I&#8217;m pleased with myself so far for sticking with this project to date &#8211; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,201],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}