{"id":11142,"date":"2021-06-17T07:52:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11142"},"modified":"2021-06-17T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T12:52:09","slug":"the-awkward-holidays-of-my-old-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11142","title":{"rendered":"The Awkward Holidays Of My Old Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mother&#8217;s Day<\/em>: Mom&#8217;s gone. If I see One More ad for Mother&#8217;s Day flowers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Father&#8217;s Day<\/em>: Dad&#8230;well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Gay Pride<\/em>: One year older, still single, and even less datable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Less Awkward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanksgiving<\/em>: Woo-Hoo&#8230;Four Day Weekend!<\/p>\n<p><em>New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/em>: Today I&#8217;m not the only one getting drunk while remembering the past.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christmas<\/em>: If I go on a road trip I won&#8217;t have to put up a tree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resigned To It<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>My Birthday<\/em>: Looks like I&#8217;ll be buying my own cake again this year too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother&#8217;s Day: Mom&#8217;s gone. If I see One More ad for Mother&#8217;s Day flowers&#8230; Father&#8217;s Day: Dad&#8230;well&#8230; Gay Pride: One year older, still single, and even less datable. &nbsp; Less Awkward Thanksgiving: Woo-Hoo&#8230;Four Day Weekend! New Year&#8217;s Eve: Today I&#8217;m not the only one getting drunk while remembering the past. Christmas: If I go on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}