{"id":3043,"date":"2016-02-10T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2016-02-10T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T05:51:00","slug":"okay-now-that-was-a-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/10\/okay-now-that-was-a-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay, now that was a birthday cake &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/googleversary.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"googleversary.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I spoke too soon: as a surprise during my team\u2019s offsite yesterday, they gave me a <i>real<\/i> Googleversary birthday cake. And a gift card to Cafe Romanza, one of my favorite coffeehouses (the other two top faves being Coupa Cafe and Cafe Intermezzo). I don\u2019t think I could have been happier at that moment:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/centaurwithcake.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"centaurwithcake.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I was sure happier today, having a nice dinner with my wife at our mutual favorite restaurant. We could have gone somewhere \u201cspecial\u201d, but I wanted to go to Aqui, the place that has the best memories of eating for me, not because of all the time I spend there writing, but of all the wonderful conversations I\u2019ve had there with the love of my life, my wife.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/der-ring.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"1066\" alt=\"der-ring.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t let me take a good picture of her, but she certainly got good pictures of me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/20160210_2022310.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" alt=\"20160210_202231(0).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now off to Facebook &#8211; I got over 50 well wishes from people on the occasion of my birthday, so as far as I am concerned the people who think that computers are making us less connected to other people can just go <b>Like<\/b> themselves. Gotta dash &#8211; the longer I spend saying thank you, the longer I put off my birthday spanking. (Actually, I already got that, but it\u2019s the principle of the thing).<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I spoke too soon: as a surprise during my team\u2019s offsite yesterday, they gave me a real Googleversary birthday cake. And a gift card to Cafe Romanza, one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,5],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-six-degrees-of-linkingnation","tag-we-call-it-living","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}