{"id":7435,"date":"2004-04-15T00:04:37","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/15\/happy-birthday-to-myself\/"},"modified":"2005-04-22T05:48:19","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T02:48:19","slug":"happy-birthday-to-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/15\/happy-birthday-to-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to myself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/20040419-present.gif\" alt=\"\"\/>Heh.  This year I haven&#8217;t been waiting for my birthday too much, but it came anyway.  Does that mean that I get old?  I don&#8217;t think so.  I was just busy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here I am and I am 26 now. I&#8217;m just over a quarter of a century old.  Sounds a lot but it actually isn&#8217;t.  My 27th year will be dedicated to my newly acquired interest &#8211; photography. :)  I&#8217;ll see where it&#8217;ll lead me.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> I felt like half a planet was congratulating me today.  I&#8217;ve got the biggest number of phone calls and SMS messages of all the times that I ever remember.  Few people even showed up at my place to have a drink or two for me.  Thank you all.  I am really impressed and touched. :)<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Heh. This year I haven&#8217;t been waiting for my birthday too much, but it came anyway. Does that mean that I get old? I don&#8217;t think so. I was just busy. Anyway, here I am and I am 26 now. I&#8217;m just over a quarter of a century old. Sounds a lot but it actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/15\/happy-birthday-to-myself\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy birthday to myself!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\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],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10042,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/08\/happy-birthday-vladimir\/","url_meta":{"origin":7435,"position":0},"title":"Happy birthday, Vladimir!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy 25th, Vladimir! 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