{"id":2240,"date":"2009-09-23T16:28:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2009-09-23T16:28:51","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T21:28:51","slug":"happy-birthday-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2240","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday SUE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_0761.jpg\" alt=\"This is what Sue would look like with two kidlets. Random karaoke moment at Reflections restaurant (where they have the best rat naa ever).\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what Sue would look like with two kidlets. Random karaoke moment at Reflections restaurant (where they have the best rat naa ever).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My brother and sister&#8217;s birthdays are only two days apart and Sue has complained her whole life that we would go out and celebrate Songbae&#8217;s birthday with a restaurant of his choice, and then tell Sue that it was for her birthday too.<\/p>\n<p>Well, for somebody SO NEGLECTED, she has come a long long way. And she knows how to have a good time too &#8211; so I have no doubt she&#8217;s doing things all the way she likes over there in England with friends and family.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_0757.jpg\" alt=\"Sue with her lovely family: husband Joss and daughter Noi naa.\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue with her lovely family: husband Joss and daughter Noi naa.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But I do miss her and wish I could give her a birthday hug in person.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s one of those crazy luckys who&#8217;s got it all and does it all; I mean not only does she have her PhD, but when her kid&#8217;s toy cell phone breaks, she pulls out her soldering kit and fixes it!<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"Sue impressing me with her soldering technique.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/IMG_0550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sue, impressing me with her soldering technique.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Even her boss appreciates that he has a good thing going with her around: He recently nominated her for a merit award based on &#8220;exceptional performance over a sustained period&#8221; and she got it. That, plus a raise &#8211; not bad, eh?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Sue, you are an exceptional sister &#8211; I hope you&#8217;re having a great 39th birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother and sister&#8217;s birthdays are only two days apart and Sue has complained her whole life that we would go out and celebrate Songbae&#8217;s birthday with a restaurant of his choice, and then tell Sue that it was for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-says-sue"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}