{"id":20617,"date":"2026-08-23T20:16:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20617"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T02:19:36","slug":"another-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/23\/another-year\/","title":{"rendered":"another year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5054-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5054-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20619\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5054-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5054-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5054-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5054-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_5054-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">renting <em>the godfather coda<\/em>, which we ended up watching the next night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">birthday came and went, i&#8217;m 52 now!!! celebrated by taking the day off, eating pizza and salad, eating cake for breakfast (ordered off goldbelly in a panic but no regrets, would do again), and watching my &#8220;canon movie i&#8217;ve never seen&#8221; &#8212; <em>paper moon <\/em>(good) and bonus second: <em>the french connection <\/em>(not my fave? but you could see why it was a big deal). birthday movies thus far:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>paris, texas<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>chungking express<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>hoosiers<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>mad max<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>the conversation<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>paper moon<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">i&#8217;m v pleased about this list and this tradition and my other unspoken tradition: TAKING THE DAY OFF. watching movies, eating cake, not working &#8212; some define this as heaven (me do). anyhow nothing revelatory to report &#8212; feel lucky for all that i have, days can still be tough, but overall it&#8217;s all p beautiful, both zoomed in and zoomed out. now watching <em>moonstruck <\/em>&#8212; a perfect movie, as i&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/23\/one-of-the-all-time-greats\/\">mentioned<\/a> (besides the 25 seconds of lifetime movie montage where cher is drinking wine in front of a fire) &#8212; which made me wonder which oscars <em>moonstruck<\/em> won (best actress\/cher, best supporting actress\/olympia dukakis, and best original screenplay\/john patrick shanley) (all extremely deserved). led me to watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/videos-photos\/60th-oscars-highlights?fid=14326\">cher&#8217;s oscar speech<\/a> and she&#8217;s awesome and meryl streep is also so awesome. maybe<em> broadcast news<\/em> should be my movie next year? ok off to fold laundry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>birthday came and went, i&#8217;m 52 now!!! celebrated by taking the day off, eating pizza and salad, eating cake for breakfast (ordered off goldbelly in a panic but no regrets, would do again), and watching my &#8220;canon movie i&#8217;ve never seen&#8221; &#8212; paper moon (good) and bonus second: the french connection (not my fave? but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20622,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20617\/revisions\/20622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}