{"id":931,"date":"2010-09-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2016-05-11T08:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T12:00:40","slug":"dozen-birthdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Dozen Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">Today, September 20, marks the end of a string of a dozen birthdays in my family that began on my twin and my birthday, August 16, and ends today on my little sister&#8217;s birthday (as well as a niece&#8217;s birthday, too.)  After all, a dozen of us are <a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/christmas-presents-and-new-years.html\">Christmas presents and New Year&#8217;s surprises<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been one party after another for the past five weeks, but enjoyable each time I get to see my wonderful, robust, raucous brethren.  It is truly special to be part of a family of 15 kids, zillions of nieces, nephews, and &#8220;greats.&#8221;  Unlike so many drama drivel shows on TV, I can honestly say that we all love one another and care for each other.  I am truly blessed that my family remains close, caring, and loving.  I know there are families out there that are not, when some families make an issue of a sibling who is gay.  I am glad I am not &#8220;the gay brother.&#8221;  I am &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bootedharleydude.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/brother-who-happens-to-be-gay.html\">the brother who happens to be gay<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pictured below is me with two of my sisters.  See?  Can&#8217;t tell that we&#8217;re related.  The sister on the left had me convinced that my &#8220;real&#8221; father was the milkman.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, &#8220;little&#8221; sis!  I love you, always.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short: cherish your family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TJTmYj6UIsI\/AAAAAAAACig\/wtiGsiY6NK0\/s1600\/Fam08202010b.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_yytsDp42pSs\/TJTmYj6UIsI\/AAAAAAAACig\/wtiGsiY6NK0\/s400\/Fam08202010b.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518288753066779330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, September 20, marks the end of a string of a dozen birthdays in my family that began on my twin and my birthday, August 16, and ends today on my little sister&#8217;s birthday (as well as a niece&#8217;s birthday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=931\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}