{"id":5424,"date":"2013-07-31T19:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T23:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2013-07-31T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T23:30:25","slug":"my-natal-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5424","title":{"rendered":"My natal day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today is my birthday.<\/strong> (By a strange coincidence, I had one on the same date last year.) So far it\u2019s been pretty good, by the standard of my birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>I consider it a birthday gift from God that three Norwegians came to the bookstore today. An elderly gentleman in the party engaged me in conversation, speaking <i>VE-RY SLOW-LY<\/i> so I could understand him. That was pleasant, and they even bought some things.<\/p>\n<p>And the crew at work bought me a cake for afternoon break, and signed a card. Good cake, too. Tonight I treated myself to half a small Domino\u2019s sausage pizza (they\u2019re knocking half off the price of any pizza ordered online this week. Doubtless just for me).<\/p>\n<p>I also got an e-mail from a guy in Russia, who claimed to be a fan and asked for an autographed book plate for his copy of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wolf-Time-Lars-Walker\/dp\/0671578154\/ref=as_li_tf_cw?&#038;linkCode=waf&#038;tag=brandbooks-20\">Wolf Time<\/a><\/i>, and a photo. I can\u2019t figure out a way for this to be a scam, so I\u2019ll be spreading the joy to the eastern hemisphere as well.<\/p>\n<p>And to top off my indulgence, I\u2019ll post my book trailer, because it&#8217;s my birthday and you have to humor me.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/82L6m73Yu3g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my birthday. (By a strange coincidence, I had one on the same date last year.) So far it\u2019s been pretty good, by the standard of my birthdays. I consider it a birthday gift from God that three Norwegians came to the bookstore today. An elderly gentleman in the party engaged me in conversation, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5424\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My natal day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}