{"id":12759,"date":"2016-11-02T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T22:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=12759"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T22:36:31","slug":"birthday-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/birthday-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/564x\/b2\/e3\/0c\/b2e30c765f3fa4f279858c7e0be771cb.jpg\" alt=\"letter writing is so like, in right now...: \" width=\"427\" height=\"540\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from goodmailday.tumbler.com via Pinterest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The General Conference Ensign magazine just arrived in my mailbox. This is one of my favorite birthday presents each year. I don&#8217;t like having a birthday on general election day, and this year I don&#8217;t. Richard has been asking me what I want for my birthday because I am someone who has everything, truly, everything. My wardrobe is immense, thanks to receiving hand-me-downs my whole life and because I can&#8217;t stop buying new blouses. I have a credit for books that I haven&#8217;t exhausted. I have time to read, write, create, make music, and be with friends.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t need anything except maybe a new violin shoulder rest to\u00a0help with my back pain as I play. When I told Richard I would love some new plastic cups for the kitchen, he just stared at me, trying to gauge if this was a trap. No way was he falling for that line, &#8220;I only want some plastic cups!&#8221; But that&#8217;s the kind of thing someone who has everything might actually want.<\/p>\n<p>I love giving gifts, but not receiving them. I do love cards and letters. I guess if I had a birthday wish, it would be that people would write a little something to me. I think this is actually a pretty difficult thing for most\u00a0people to do, so no guilt vibes from me. I also have a great love for sweets and anything that smells of coconut or vanilla.<\/p>\n<p>And now I feel ridiculous for writing this\u00a0self-centered post. I\u00a0feel this great longing to\u00a0do something that doesn&#8217;t involve thinking about myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Conference Ensign magazine just arrived in my mailbox. This is one of my favorite birthday presents each year. I don&#8217;t like having a birthday on general election day, and this year I don&#8217;t. Richard has been asking me what I want for my birthday because I am someone who has everything, truly, everything. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/birthday-wishes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birthday wishes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12763,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12759\/revisions\/12763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}