{"id":558,"date":"2004-07-03T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/07\/03\/thats-ms-old-fart-to-you\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:54:43","slug":"thats-ms-old-fart-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2004\/07\/03\/thats-ms-old-fart-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"THAT&#8217;S MS OLD FART TO YOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got called an old fart. I sent out birthday invitations and nearly all of the responses I&#8217;ve gotten back have made jeering or jokey remarks about my age. It&#8217;s making me want to call off the party. I wasn&#8217;t sure I even wanted to HAVE a party but I sort of felt like I SHOULD have a party because that&#8217;s what you do in Sweden, and, I guess, most places, when you have a big birthday to <strike>make you feel old<\/strike> celebrate. I don&#8217;t want to turn 40. I&#8217;m not looking forward to it. It really bothers me. I confess that I&#8217;m having a harder time with this birthday than with any birthday ever and the jokes don&#8217;t really help.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, once I&#8217;m past it, my age won&#8217;t be a big deal anymore, to me or to anyone else.<\/p>\n<p><i>argh<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got called an old fart. I sent out birthday invitations and nearly all of the responses I&#8217;ve gotten back have made jeering or jokey remarks about my age. It&#8217;s making me want to call off the party. I wasn&#8217;t sure I even wanted to HAVE a party but I sort of felt like I SHOULD have a party because that&#8217;s what you do in Sweden, and, I guess, most places, when you have a big birthday to make you feel old celebrate. I don&#8217;t want to turn 40. I&#8217;m not looking forward to it. It really bothers me.&#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":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6018,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/6018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}