{"id":5295,"date":"2022-04-14T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:11","slug":"birthday-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5295","title":{"rendered":"BIRTHDAY BREAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today was my 54th birthday. It makes a convenient excuse to break from the topic of hell and move on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow is a new day and a new year of life. And all that jazz.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have long passed the age where birthdays are something to look forward to, but today was a pretty good one.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It started with Bible study and running the dogs one mile each. (No record times, but I got the exercise.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got a little work in before a lunch date with my beautiful wife.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then a little more work and &#8230; the day being both rainy and my birthday &#8230; I couldn&#8217;t resist a short afternoon nap.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(There are few thing we old people enjoy more than an afternoon nap.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the evening, Melissa and Sarah and I went to the Thai restaurant downtown. We were halfway through our crab rangoon appetizers when in walked Hannah &#8211; home for Easter several days earlier than I expected. A most pleasant surprise for me!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since twenty years ago Hannah and I missed sharing a birthday together by two hours (she was born at 10 pm on April 12th just before I turned 34 at midnight), Melissa got us some cupcakes to celebrate both birthdays once we returned home.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh3uHeXj6MW_N1Tl0mXTpwKH6X0tLoo5xW147vhW9sCMLJCOPOg2a8YXHKTOlKUH2Ro-g4uKqXJHq6kcDcTv9AxE73v1U0a28-62m3sP-oFeYk6wVwigRyQglwvrBVRfHDMeUTGRP8AOu03_9w0j26TXAsKBg89e9jowHGURqWaUjJ6jDVJgAfMGTY5\/w640-h480\/20220413_210427%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"1079\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Twenty years!?)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then we had a quiet evening watching a movie together as two-thirds of a family.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blissful!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A good way to cap another year of life. God is good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my 54th birthday. It makes a convenient excuse to break from the topic of hell and move on.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a new day and a new year of life. And all that jazz. I have long passed the age where birthdays are something to look forward to, but today was a pretty good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}