{"id":372,"date":"2009-10-01T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/happy-birthday-to-me\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:59:07","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/happy-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful birthday has come and gone.  I am so grateful for all of the love, kindness and blessings that my amazing family and friends sent my way.  I am left with the fully ineffective, yet fitting word: WOW!  I had the chance to celebrate my birthday (9\/24), my mom\u2019s birthday (9\/27), and my nephew\u2019s birthday (9\/30) over the weekend.   We all went to dinner with family members, watched Stevie Wonder\u2019s DVD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Live-Last-Wonder-Summers-Night\/dp\/B001R0KH3M\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Live at Last&#8221;<\/a>(which I happen to be a part of), and had a great time enjoying each other\u2019s company.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve enjoyed a few excellent dinners, including dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picanrestaurant.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pican Restaurant<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/burma-superstar-oakland-6\" target=\"_blank\">Burma Superstar<\/a>.  Both were excellent and I look forward to revisiting each!  As usual, my birthday was on a warm, sunny day (thanks to Indian Summer!), and I actually took the day off!  I went to see the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julie_&amp;_Julia\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cJulie and Julia\u201d<\/a>, which was the perfect set up for dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chezpanisse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chez Panisse<\/a>.  The food was superlative!  I had Salmon Carpaccio with mustard and capers, Pasta e fagioli and a main course of Grilled duck breast with huckleberries and fried polenta.  I don\u2019t even like duck, but this was so well prepared that I ate every morsel.  Desert was a cardamom pavlova with raspberry ice cream.  Yummy!   I so adore great food.  I think I should get out and enjoy a fabulous meal at least every other week.  Yes!  As soon as I stop being a ridiculous workaholic and allow myself more free time.  That\u2019s coming soon, people!  Just you watch! : ><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the birthday wishes, gifts and love!  If you don\u2019t already know, I love you all!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful birthday has come and gone. I am so grateful for all of the love, kindness and blessings that my amazing family and friends sent my way. I am left with the fully ineffective, yet fitting word: WOW! I had the chance to celebrate my birthday (9\/24), my mom\u2019s birthday (9\/27), and my nephew\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}