{"id":33671,"date":"2020-10-03T02:53:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T09:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/?p=33671"},"modified":"2020-10-03T02:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T09:53:29","slug":"a-13th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/?p=33671","title":{"rendered":"A 13th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/adoptedjoy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20200920_023621N1-1-scaled.jpg)\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>September is Xavier&#8217;s birthday month, and this year he officially joined the ranks of of teenagers. It was a long awaited day, and he received everything he wanted &#8211; cash money for his pocket, and his own Instagram and Facebook accounts. Being camera shy, he&#8217;s not intensely focused on posting selfies (a trait of which I approve) but it&#8217;s nice for him to have a little social space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurent generously provided two delectable cakes, with the assistance of Alyssa and Ruben who came over to her place the day before. I would guess that Alyssa helped, while Ruben kept Chelle and Pandora (her frisky kitties) properly occupied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a fun time with the whole family together, including my dazzlingly handsome grandson, Patrick, and Geneva brought along our bonus-daughter, Sarah, whom we have missed seeing for many months of lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful for the time together &#8211; so many are still unable to gather in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is Xavier&#8217;s birthday month, and this year he officially joined the ranks of of teenagers. It was a long awaited day, and he received everything he wanted &#8211; cash money for his pocket, and his own Instagram and Facebook accounts. Being camera shy, he&#8217;s not intensely focused on posting selfies (a trait of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,101,43,3,273,215],"tags":[305,332,152,489,478],"class_list":["post-33671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adopted-joy","category-birthday","category-celebrations","category-family","category-gatherings","category-milestones","tag-birthdays","tag-celebrations","tag-family-3","tag-gatherings","tag-milestones","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33697,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33671\/revisions\/33697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.adoptedjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}