{"id":48,"date":"2009-03-05T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfwaytoreality.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-03-05T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T00:01:37","slug":"happy-0th-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/05\/happy-0th-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 0th Birthday to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thompsonsimon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/happy-0th-birthday.jpg\" alt=\"Happy 0th birthday\" title=\"happy-0th-birthday\" width=\"498\" height=\"228\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy 0th birthday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How nice for My Offers to think of me on my birthday, but I&#8217;m sure I remember 30+ birthdays, and really don&#8217;t fancy being born again.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes, they have mislaid or lost my year of birth (not sure how that can happen) and their email-generating script hasn&#8217;t been set up to <strong>1) check if there is no year of birth<\/strong> and <strong>2) not check for rogue values (e.g. below 16 or over 100*)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, they only look silly &#8211; and I&#8217;ve got a blog posting out of it &#8211; but there may be times a &#8220;clever&#8221; email like this could leave its sender looking more than stupid.<\/p>\n<p>It would also be rude to point out the errors in &#8220;to help make this <del datetime=\"2009-03-04T17:36:45+00:00\">year<\/del> year&#8217;s <del datetime=\"2009-03-04T17:36:45+00:00\">celebrations<\/del> celebration one to remember, but I&#8217;m clearly too young to know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How nice for My Offers to think of me on my birthday, but I&#8217;m sure I remember 30+ birthdays, and really don&#8217;t fancy being born again. Thinking what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes, they have mislaid or lost my year of birth (not sure how that can happen) and their email-generating script hasn&#8217;t been set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-web-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thompsonsimon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}