When I returned from church today I was gen\u00aduine\u00adly shocked to find a house full of stu\u00addents wait\u00ading to wish me a hap\u00adpy birth\u00adday.<\/p>\n
I was touched.<\/p>\n
Also, I got one of the coolest gifts I\u2019ve got\u00adten in a long time. One of my stu\u00addents<\/a> took a pic\u00adture of me play\u00ading with Dana, devel\u00adoped it her\u00adself, and framed it. It\u2019s the kind of pho\u00adto I\u2019ll prob\u00ada\u00adbly wind up keep\u00ading on my desk until I don\u2019t have a desk any\u00admore.<\/p>\n Thanks to every\u00adone for the Apples To Apples game, to Jin for bak\u00ading the cakes, to Desir\u00adae for shop\u00adping, and to Karen for the pho\u00adto. Thanks to Paula for orga\u00adniz\u00ading the whole decep\u00adtive shindig and to who\u00adev\u00ader did the dec\u00ado\u00adrat\u00ading. I\u2019m sure oth\u00ader peo\u00adple did things I don\u2019t know about, and I\u2019m grate\u00adful to them as well.<\/p>\n It was just great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I returned from church today I was gen\u00aduine\u00adly shocked to find a house full of stu\u00addents wait\u00ading to wish me a hap\u00adpy birth\u00adday. I was touched. Also, I got one of the coolest gifts I\u2019ve got\u00adten in a long time. One of my stu\u00addents took a pic\u00adture of me play\u00ading with Dana, devel\u00adoped it \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cSur\u00adprise Birth\u00adday Par\u00adty\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-5t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}