{"id":1640,"date":"2008-02-15T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-02-15T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T17:02:03","slug":"its_birthday_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"It’s Birthday Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is Josh Marshall’s birthday, and he has a sweet post and photo up<\/a> about it and showing him and his son. He says:<\/p>\n

I don’t like it when people project their own experiences into a template for other peoples lives. But speaking for myself I do not think I could feel complete as a person, fully accept this boundedness as a person, or fully know what it was to be one without the turned-upside-down experience I’m having as a father. In a few months my wife is going to give birth to our second son. So I’m looking forward to more of this.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My birthday is tomorrow (with a significantly larger number attached to it than his), and I’m less shy about using my experiences as a springboard toward understanding the world. But I’ll completely agree with Josh that having, raising, loving and living with my three sons – Biggest Guy, Middle Guy, and Littlest Guy – has changed me more than anything else I have ever done and far for the better.<\/p>\n

I’m blessed in a lot of ways; interesting work, some measure of financial security, the love of TG and our friends and family. I don’t think I’d have any of it if my sons hadn’t made me into a man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s birthday time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}