{"id":3411,"date":"2011-05-25T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2011-05-25T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:39:18","slug":"too-long-for-a-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3411","title":{"rendered":"Too Long for a Tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to dozens of birthday wishes in my mailbox, some from folks I haven&#8217;t seen in over twenty years. That is the strangeness and hilarity this side of facebook.<\/p>\n<p>My parents sang me Happy Birthday as a memo and sent the file to me. The best bit is at the end, where my mother snaps at my dad in Korean, GOOD GRIEF &#8211; you&#8217;re covering the microphone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Memo.m4a\">That memo from my folks.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used to have trouble remembering how old I was turning, which was complicated by the fact that Bella liked to tease me by adding a year or so to my age when ever it was mentioned. That trouble is gone since Christian was born two days before I turned 40. His age plus 40 = 43.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for thinking of me. I&#8217;ll continue posting my thoughts throughout the day (a questionable practice, I know).<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, we&#8217;re about to leave to for our last Earthroots class of the spring session, and then it&#8217;s off to Korean food for dinner. So, I may not be back until after dinner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up this morning to dozens of birthday wishes in my mailbox, some from folks I haven&#8217;t seen in over twenty years. That is the strangeness and hilarity this side of facebook. My parents sang me Happy Birthday as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=3411\">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":[42,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-growing-old"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411","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=3411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}