{"id":928,"date":"2009-04-01T07:08:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:11:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T16:11:47","slug":"the-weirdest-birthday-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"The Weirdest birthday. part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"

I checked my mail after class last night and discovered a late birthday card. I saw it was from Sarah (Carnes\/Ward) and was surprised. Sarah and I had been “friends” in high school and although becoming facebook “friends” recently hadn’t spoken much in the ensuing decade after graduation. I say we were “friends” back then because it was more like I followed her around and never got the guts to ask her for a date, and she was happy (as far as I know) that I wasn’t more confident. Later on I became disinterested and we were just regular friends, although Byron always hung out with her a lot more than I did as I think they worked together at Coldwater Creek for a time.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the card was a bizarre birthday card.<\/p>\n

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and upon opening….<\/p>\n

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When I opened it up Mr. Rogers started singing his song You Can Never Go Down the Drain.\u00a0 However, it cut out after the third line of the chorus… and Byron and I thought it sounded … off.\u00a0 I looked it up online and of course, they were cutting off the last line of the chorus (something about being bigger than a telescope).<\/p>\n

Byron fessed up later that he had been talking to Sarah on her birthday (which has always been a week before mine) and they joked about her finding the “gayest birthday card you can find” for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I checked my mail after class last night and discovered a late birthday card. I saw it was from Sarah (Carnes\/Ward) and was surprised. Sarah and I had been “friends” in high school and although becoming facebook “friends” recently hadn’t spoken much in the ensuing decade after graduation. I say we were “friends” back then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}