{"id":1745,"date":"2017-07-27T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:14:18","slug":"my-birthday-lunch-with-the-lads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"My birthday lunch with &#8220;the lads&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Justin Thyme. Coincidental that it was my birthday since we&#8217;d been aiming to do lunch for awhile. I kept it quiet about my birthday &#8211; hoping they&#8217;d miss it &#8211; but they were alerted by Mike&#8217;s wife Karen. Anyway here you go &#8211; straight snap and then a selfie shot -because it&#8217;s always all about me &#8230; And we&#8217;d only had a drink, or two &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><em><strong>Mike<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f882970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13304\" title=\"20170726_134243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f882970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f882970c-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e923970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13303\" title=\"20170726_134343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e923970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e923970d-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000bf; text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Paul<\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/span><br><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e928970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"20170726_134245\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e928970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e928970d-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px;\" title=\"20170726_134245\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f8a1970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13302\" title=\"20170726_134325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f8a1970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f8a1970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Dennis<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e938970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13301\" title=\"20170726_134248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e938970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb09b2e938970d-500wi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f8af970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13300\" title=\"20170726_134336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f8af970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d299f8af970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Justin Thyme. Coincidental that it was my birthday since we&#8217;d been aiming to do lunch for awhile. I kept it quiet about my birthday &#8211; hoping they&#8217;d miss it &#8211; but they were alerted by Mike&#8217;s wife Karen. Anyway here you go &#8211; straight snap and then a selfie shot -because it&#8217;s always all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13305,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/13305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}