{"id":3850,"date":"2008-07-26T00:21:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T00:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:09:43","slug":"my-birthday-today-as-i-hit-50-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3850","title":{"rendered":"My birthday today as I hit 50 again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My rule of thumb used to be &#8220;always subtract seven years&#8221; &#8211; and that hasn&#8217;t changed. But I don&#8217;t think I can get away with that one anymore.&nbsp;Here I am in Oxford, England three weeks ago. Brigid took the picture as we had lunch.<br><\/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\/2008\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ba06a38833-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14083\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ba06a38833-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/6a00d834525a2f69e200e553ba06a38833-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I&#8217;ll be driving Joe and friends around to get to a concert, and watching Tim play baseball on his summer &#8220;travel team.&#8221; And squeeze in the gym at some point. They&#8217;ll be a Little celebration tomorrow for Joe, who turned 15 two days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2008\/07\/joe-is-15-today.html\"><font color=\"#810081\"><strong>Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Joe is 15 today<\/strong><\/font><\/a>&nbsp;and I, when my mother is here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My rule of thumb used to be &#8220;always subtract seven years&#8221; &#8211; and that hasn&#8217;t changed. But I don&#8217;t think I can get away with that one anymore.&nbsp;Here I am in Oxford, England three weeks ago. Brigid took the picture as we had lunch. Today I&#8217;ll be driving Joe and friends around to get to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","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=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14086,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/14086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}