{"id":475,"date":"2010-06-23T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2010-06-24T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:49:28","slug":"happy-birthday-to-malvina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/happy-birthday-to-malvina\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Malvina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/friends.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-477 alignleft\" title=\"friends\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/friends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a>I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to one of my very best friends!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy Birthday, Malv!<\/strong> I&#8217;m glad you weren&#8217;t TOO mad at me for stealing Sarah&#8217;s seat in front of you in Geometry back in 1994. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been friends for SIXTEEN YEARS. That&#8217;s more than half our lives. And as evidenced by the picture to the left in which we were both 14 years old&#8230; We grew up okay. <em>(Yeah I totally scrounged around for an old picture. And I artfully cropped Felicia and Edie out of it. Hee. Incidentally, in this picture we were totally cutting school! Since we were all goody-two-shoes, it was the final day of our freshman year in high school and didn&#8217;t get in trouble.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hope it&#8217;s a good one, lady! It&#8217;s a brand new decade! I bet it will be even better than the last one. At least we can ring this one in with copious alcohol!<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/happy-birthday-to-malvina\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to one of my very best friends! Happy Birthday, Malv! I&#8217;m glad you weren&#8217;t TOO mad at me for stealing Sarah&#8217;s seat in front of you in Geometry back in 1994. \ud83d\ude09 We&#8217;ve been friends for SIXTEEN YEARS. That&#8217;s more than half our lives. And as evidenced by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/happy-birthday-to-malvina\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Birthday to Malvina!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,116],"tags":[211,326],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-friends","tag-birthdays","tag-friends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}