{"id":1084,"date":"2009-02-14T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T05:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2009-02-14T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T05:48:00","slug":"it-was-20-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/it-was-20-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It Was 20 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago, my family threw a surprise party for my father, GeorgeB, in honor of his 50th birthday. In the picture below, he&#8217;s the happy fellow wearing the giant button and I am the one laughing like a maniac on the left.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SZep9K_xKJI\/AAAAAAAAHP0\/EUUP2SVTqjs\/s1600-h\/dads+50th+birthday.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SZep9K_xKJI\/AAAAAAAAHP0\/EUUP2SVTqjs\/s320\/dads+50th+birthday.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302893954640980114\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">WendyB and GeorgeB in 1989<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Today, GeorgeB is celebrating his 70th birthday. Time flies when you&#8217;re having fun!<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SZerIsTm_ZI\/AAAAAAAAHP8\/tF73owBNnGg\/s1600-h\/dad+and+wendy+feb+13+2009.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SZerIsTm_ZI\/AAAAAAAAHP8\/tF73owBNnGg\/s320\/dad+and+wendy+feb+13+2009.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302895252072758674\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">WendyB and GeorgeB in 2009<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I gave GeorgeB a special pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/rub-me-right-way.html\">cufflinks<\/a> in honor of his big day, but I feel like more is required, so the Beatles are going to sing him a song.<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JOO8-Jp-xsg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JOO8-Jp-xsg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, GeorgeB!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: GeorgeB commented on this post, saying, &#8220;Thank you for all your good wishes. Now buy some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WendyB jewelry<\/a>!&#8221; Remember, it&#8217;s his birthday. You owe it to him to do what he says. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty years ago, my family threw a surprise party for my father, GeorgeB, in honor of his 50th birthday. In the picture below, he&#8217;s the happy fellow wearing the giant button and I am the one laughing like a maniac on the left. WendyB and GeorgeB in 1989 Today, GeorgeB is celebrating his 70th birthday&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/it-was-20-years-ago-today\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,52,15,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beatles","7":"category-birthdays","8":"category-gorgeous-family","9":"category-pictures-of-me","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}