{"id":2011,"date":"2010-06-23T00:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2010-06-22T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T02:39:13","slug":"half-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Half-Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to the Mall with my daughter, who invariably offers thoughtful commentary on her surroundings, whatever they may be.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EonMall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2013\" title=\"EonMall\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EonMall.jpg\" alt=\"EonMall\" width=\"432\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EonMall.jpg 800w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EonMall-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/EonMall-300x298.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I post this sketch in honor of her half-birthday today. Long ago, when the children were tiny and each week seemed to mark another milestone, we developed the habit of celebrating their half-birthdays every year, as if they weren\u2019t already sufficiently doted upon&#8230; But it\u2019s a modest celebration, with a candle in a pancake, a little package beside the plate, and a rousing round of \u201cHappy Half-Birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Yahrzeit22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2012\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"Yahrzeit2\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Yahrzeit22.png\" alt=\"Yahrzeit2\" width=\"125\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>Ruthie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to the Mall with my daughter, who invariably offers thoughtful commentary on her surroundings, whatever they may be. I post this sketch in honor of her half-birthday today. Long ago, when the children were tiny and each week seemed to mark another milestone, we developed the habit of celebrating their half-birthdays every year,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=2011\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[55,47,48,17,3],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbook","tag-birthday","tag-dc","tag-ecs","tag-penink","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}