{"id":9999,"date":"2014-10-08T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T21:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9999"},"modified":"2014-11-07T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T18:21:20","slug":"40-most-influential-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/40-most-influential-people\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Most Influential People"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10000\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/00baca76aa21b704983b5ff7c1b64a48.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10000 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/00baca76aa21b704983b5ff7c1b64a48.jpg\" alt=\"00baca76aa21b704983b5ff7c1b64a48\" width=\"570\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/00baca76aa21b704983b5ff7c1b64a48.jpg 570w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/00baca76aa21b704983b5ff7c1b64a48-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Etsy by Janet Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I turn 40 in less than a month. I threw myself a birthday party when I turned 30 and invited everyone in town. I wanted to do the same thing for my 40th. I&#8217;ve juggled all kinds of fabulous plans. Then I saw a photograph of some of my friends dressed in 1940&#8217;s costumes at an outdoor party with twinkle lights and movie posters from the 40&#8217;s. Yes, someone had come up with the perfect 40th birthday party in my neighborhood, just 2 months before my own. I haven&#8217;t had the heart to think about other ideas since.<\/p>\n<p>This week I decided that I will celebrate my 40th birthday by writing letters over the next few weeks to 40 of the most influential people in my life. I am writing this on my blog so I will be accountable. I haven&#8217;t decided if I will publish my list, but I&#8217;ve begun writing. I think it&#8217;s the best celebration I could come up with, even though it doesn&#8217;t include costumes and big band music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turn 40 in less than a month. I threw myself a birthday party when I turned 30 and invited everyone in town. I wanted to do the same thing for my 40th. I&#8217;ve juggled all kinds of fabulous plans. Then I saw a photograph of some of my friends dressed in 1940&#8217;s costumes at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/40-most-influential-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">40 Most Influential People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9999","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\/9999","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=9999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10003,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9999\/revisions\/10003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}