{"id":451,"date":"2011-07-05T09:32:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T09:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=451"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T21:05:39","slug":"meine-geburtstag-hat-heute-angefangen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/meine-geburtstag-hat-heute-angefangen\/","title":{"rendered":"meine geburtstag hat heute angefangen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>it&#8217;s still 3 weeks away, but today i received 2 birthday presents &amp; there&#8217;s another one tomorrow, so i&#8217;m declaring my birthday season officially begun! <br> <br>one birthday present that arrived today is my fahrerschein buch und pr\u00fcfungsb\u00f6gen; i&#8217;m applying for a german drivers&#8217; licence, which involves sitting a theory test (but happily i can do this in english, &amp; even more happily i don&#8217;t have to sit the practical test because of my decades of impeccable driving) so the book &amp; sample tests are a birthday present from andy. however i&#8217;m having trouble reading the book with a straight face &#8211; the translation is pretty hilarious; i think i will offer <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/lehrboegen.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lehrboegen.de<\/a> my professional pedantic proof-reading services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/hanky_picasso.jpg\" alt=\"Picasso hanky\" class=\"wp-image-452\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>a more personal present also arrived today, all the way from new zealand. i let it be known a few weeks ago that i had a hankering for handkerchiefs, &amp; meliors rose to the challenge &amp; hunted out a most excellent specimen (pictured). in fact it&#8217;s almost too good to blow one&#8217;s nose into &#8211; it&#8217;s a picasso! but it&#8217;s a peace dove so i will be waving it around at every opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>meliors has certainly set the standards high in the hanky stakes. i wonder what other treasures might appear \u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s still 3 weeks away, but today i received 2 birthday presents &amp; there&#8217;s another one tomorrow, so i&#8217;m declaring my birthday season officially begun!<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/meine-geburtstag-hat-heute-angefangen\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}