{"id":5019,"date":"2019-08-15T17:35:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/cake-and-candles\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:16:27","slug":"cake-and-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=5019","title":{"rendered":"Cake and Candles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s after midnight here, which makes it the 27th, which means I can post this.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of fuss in political news about people not knowing, or arguing about, how old the world is. I just laugh at them. I <em><\/em>know exactly how old <em>my<\/em> world is, because I know when she was born.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday and more gratitude than I can begin to express to the woman without whose seemingly endless reserves of love, support, and patience&#8211;woo, boy, especially patience&#8211;I wouldn&#8217;t be remotely near where I am today. Or <em>who<\/em> I am today. If you&#8217;ve ever enjoyed a single word I&#8217;ve written, or a single conversation we&#8217;ve had, it&#8217;s due as much to her as it is to me.<\/p>\n<p>I love you, George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s after midnight here, which makes it the 27th, which means I can post this. There&#8217;s been a lot of fuss in political news about people not knowing, or arguing about, how old the world is. I just laugh at them. I know exactly how old my world is, because I know when she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}