{"id":6350,"date":"2020-07-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2020-07-13T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T02:25:37","slug":"birthday-ruminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/birthday-ruminations\/","title":{"rendered":"BIRTHDAY RUMINATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is my\n72<sup>nd<\/sup> birthday.&nbsp; Been a fun\nride.&nbsp; So far, my eighth decade has been\ngood to me, not counting the pandemic and culture war taking to the streets and\nall.&nbsp; (Murder hornets don\u2019t seem to be\nhere yet, but they say the cicadas are due\u2026a plague of locusts on top of everything\nelse.&nbsp; How many Horsemen of the\nApocalypse do we have on the racetrack now? I\u2019m losing count.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel 27 on\nthe better days, but that could just mean I\u2019m old <em>and <\/em>dyslexic. (And\nrepetitive, \u2018cause I seem to remember saying something similar on my last\nbirthday\u2026old people do that, you know.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Backwoods Home <\/em>founder Dave Duffy has asked some of his writers for short biographies. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mine is up currently (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/massad-ayoob-bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mine is up currently<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my 72nd birthday.&nbsp; Been a fun ride.&nbsp; So far, my eighth decade has been good to me, not counting the pandemic and culture war taking to the streets and all.&nbsp; (Murder hornets don\u2019t seem to be here yet, but they say the cicadas are due\u2026a plague of locusts on top of everything else.&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6351,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}