{"id":14283,"date":"2026-04-03T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14283"},"modified":"2026-04-03T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:31:57","slug":"happy-birthday-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14283","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Anyway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it seems like you&#8217;re not on Facebook anymore, not even just to be on messenger, or I&#8217;d have wished you a happy birthday. But anyway&#8230;<em><strong>Happy Birthday!<\/strong><\/em> I hope things are still going well for you and your significant other, and that life is wonderful. I&#8217;m old and tired and coming to the end of my road, but I will always remember you fondly, and that strange amazing time. Good things happened in spite of all the static circling everything. Progress was made. And smiles. Lots of smiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it seems like you&#8217;re not on Facebook anymore, not even just to be on messenger, or I&#8217;d have wished you a happy birthday. But anyway&#8230;Happy Birthday! I hope things are still going well for you and your significant other, and that life is wonderful. I&#8217;m old and tired and coming to the end of [&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":[14,282,12],"class_list":["post-14283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-gay-youth","tag-love-wins","tag-the-struggle-for-our-lives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283","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=14283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14285,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14283\/revisions\/14285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}