{"id":6953,"date":"2013-09-04T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=6953"},"modified":"2013-09-04T18:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:34:32","slug":"came-pretty-close-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/04\/came-pretty-close-to-this\/","title":{"rendered":"came pretty close to this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanhonking.com\/regarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">regarding<\/a>, discussing the best way to handle one&#8217;s birthday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In case I haven\u2019t told you yet, it\u2019s important that you know that we have devised the ultimate birthday plan for those who dislike birthday plans. What you do is, whoever\u2019s birthday it is gets to do whatever they want for 24 hours, and the other person (if you are partnered; if not god help you) \u201cjoyfully facilitates.\u201d On its surface this method seems to be about hedonism, and it is, but on a deeper level it\u2019s really about trying to live fully in the moment, for just one day. None of us live in the moment, because it\u2019s impossible. Dudes study for years to become Buddhist monks just to start learning how to do it. But for your birthday, you are supposed to take a deep breath and let go of everything that prevents you from living in the moment in your normal life:<br \/>\n&#8211; worrying about what the other person might want to do<br \/>\n&#8211; worrying about work you should be doing<br \/>\n&#8211; planning of all kinds<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from regarding, discussing the best way to handle one&#8217;s birthday: In case I haven\u2019t told you yet, it\u2019s important that you know that we have devised the ultimate birthday plan for those who dislike birthday plans. What you do is, whoever\u2019s birthday it is gets to do whatever they want for 24 hours, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953","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=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6962,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions\/6962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}