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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAll in all it was a good day. I got some delicious pizza and hot wings from a local spot and received a handful of cards from my amazing kids. My beautiful wife even got me a nice little gift. I won’t share what it was because I don’t want to make anyone jealous, but it was pretty amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I haven’t always been a fan of my birthday. It’s just so close to Christmas that I feel like I miss out on some of the birthday fun due to the holiday happenings. I am sure there are some people out there that can understand what I mean, but I’ll tell ya, my amazing family sure does an excellent job of making sure they know they are thinking of me and that I am special to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This weekend we are celebrating mine, my brother-in-law, my friend, and his girlfriend’s birthday by playing laser tag. We have a huge group going, and my wife already said we are not allowed to be on the same team. But as for last night, my actual bday, with a belly full of pizza, and non-stop laughs from the Impractical Jokers, I had a perfect night for my 38th, and I could not have asked for anything more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday was my 38th birthday and it’s weird but I don’t feel 38. I feel a lot younger, physically and mentally. I am sure that will catch up with me soon enough. I was showered with shout-outs of happy birthdays on social media, and I also got a few texts from some close family and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,276],"tags":[107,12,147],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-family","tag-birthday","tag-blog-2","tag-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/it-is-my-birthday-carlton.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JMKA-1wg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5848,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/revisions\/5848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlouisdad.com\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}