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<\/a><\/p>\nAs poor as the image quality is, I think, the illustration does answer the question. \u00a0Please feel free to let me know if you need any clarifications.<\/p>\n
Thirdly, please don’t think bad of me for not inviting you to my birthday party. \u00a0There was none this year. \u00a0With Easter\u00a0coinciding on the same Sunday, I felt it was slightly inappropriate to compete with religious celebrations. \u00a0Especially given the rainy weather and out-of-country trips for a few must-be-there guests. \u00a0Excuses, excuses, I know. \u00a0I was just too lazy to arrange all things in time. \u00a0Until the next year.<\/p>\n
Once again, thank you all for warm words and wishes. I had a good one!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
First of all, I’d like to thank everyone who called, emailed, tweeted, facebooked, skyped, or sent me birthday best wishes via any other means. \u00a0I got all of them, and it means the world to me. \u00a0One thing all my birthdays have in common is they remind me of all the wonderful people that I … Continue reading Before and after : aging celebration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[696,438],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","tag-birthday","tag-celebrations"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17973,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/11\/happy-birthday-gmail\/","url_meta":{"origin":16232,"position":0},"title":"Happy birthday, Gmail!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It turns out it's quite a birthday day today. \u00a0Not only GitHub is being five, but Gmail is being nine! \u00a0Between the two of them, that's a lot of my screen time right there. \u00a0Anyways, happy birthday Gmail. \u00a0Please stay free and awesome, and thank you for all the time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Gmail Infographic","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Gmail-Infographic-286x500.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":21594,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/16\/huge-thank-you\/","url_meta":{"origin":16232,"position":1},"title":"Huge Thank You!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I wanted to take this opportunity and say a huge Thank You to everyone who made yesterday a very special day for me. \u00a0It was truly one of the greatest birthday celebrations I've ever had. \u00a0You are all truly the best! 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