{"id":1293,"date":"2006-12-07T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/07\/happy-birthday-martin\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:46:47","slug":"happy-birthday-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/07\/happy-birthday-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARTIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My firstborn turned 9 today. No matter how much I squish him down on the top of his head, he keeps growing. All he wanted for his birthday, and all he got, was books and Lego (and one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bamse.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bamse<\/a> DVD).<\/p>\n<p>If you were 9 years old and your parents asked you what you wanted for your birthday dinner, what would you say? Pizza, maybe. Tacos! Hotdogs&#8230;hamburgers, salmon even. I was pretty sure he would say salmon or the inevitable sushi, but he wanted <b><i>JULBORD<\/i><\/b>. He and Anders made a list of all the absolute must-haves for his julbord birthday dinner, right down the line for every <a href=\"http:\/\/lizardek.livejournal.com\/273733.html\">traditional Swedish Christmas food<\/a> required for a genuine julbord, and that&#8217;s what we had for dinner tonight, along with <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stigscafe.se\/bilder\/tartor_bernads\/Princess.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">princesst\u00e5rta<\/a><\/i> for dessert.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/102307_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 align=\"Middle\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/97376_original.jpg\" width=500 border=0 height=332 align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"-3\"><i>photo credits: Anders Ek<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dscn0016.jpg\" width=337 border=0 height=449 align=\"Middle\"><br \/>\n<font size=\"-3\"><i>photo credit: Russell Gilbert<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p><b>Really Great Writing Out There Right Now<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/melaniefordwilson.com\/blog\/?p=99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Great Pretender<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My firstborn turned 9 today. No matter how much I squish him down on the top of his head, he keeps growing. All he wanted for his birthday, and all he got, was books and Lego (and one Bamse DVD). If you were 9 years old and your parents asked you what you wanted for your birthday dinner, what would you say? Pizza, maybe. Tacos! Hotdogs&#8230;hamburgers, salmon even. I was pretty sure he would say salmon or the inevitable sushi, but he wanted JULBORD. He and Anders made a list of all the absolute must-haves for his julbord birthday dinner,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,7],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-martinbean","tag-obiterphotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7442,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}