{"id":14549,"date":"2026-09-15T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14549"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:47:34","slug":"no-i-am-not-putting-73-candles-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14549","title":{"rendered":"No I Am Not Putting 73 Candles On It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the birthday cake I bought for myself, on the kitchen table at Casa del Garrett. Vanilla cake with vanilla butter icing! In retrospect I should have asked for a shot of insulin to go with it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14550\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/73birthdaycake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/73birthdaycake.jpg 526w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/73birthdaycake-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate them coming out with those number candles!<\/p>\n<p>In the background is the Glenn Close Cruella de Vil doll I inherited from mom&#8217;s collection. I found it while going through mom&#8217;s things deciding what to give to Greensburg Historical Society. I&#8217;m keeping it. I&#8217;m still trying to decide where to place her which is why she&#8217;s on the dining room table, but I&#8217;m tempted to let her oversee the bookcase in my den between where I keep some Disney World memorabilia and the shrine to my three strikes.<\/p>\n<p>The crab is an Alebrije I bought in Epcot Mexico a few years ago. I&#8217;d never seen an Alebrije crab and I live in Maryland near the bay, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the birthday cake I bought for myself, on the kitchen table at Casa del Garrett. Vanilla cake with vanilla butter icing! In retrospect I should have asked for a shot of insulin to go with it&#8230; I really appreciate them coming out with those number candles! In the background is the Glenn Close Cruella [&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":[145,157],"class_list":["post-14549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-life","tag-the-old-man-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549","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=14549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14551,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14549\/revisions\/14551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}