{"id":968,"date":"2008-11-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=968"},"modified":"2009-06-20T20:16:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T00:16:32","slug":"happy-very-belated-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/happy-very-belated-birthday-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Very Belated Birthday to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I turned 40 <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/show-some-respect-bitches\/\">last December<\/a>, my gorgeous mother, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/no-book-club-due-to-important-birthday\/\">BarbaraB<\/a>, told me she wanted to take me shopping for a special birthday present. I couldn&#8217;t take the pressure of picking out my own gift for such a momentous occasion. I felt it had to be something amazing that I would never buy for myself. Tricky! But at long last, I found the gift of my dreams. Here is Gigi the dog guarding my purple Prada birthday wallet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSi_L9MQjII\/AAAAAAAAGqY\/Bzc9547uNto\/s1600-h\/IMG_0096.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271673575962610818\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SSi_L9MQjII\/AAAAAAAAGqY\/Bzc9547uNto\/s320\/IMG_0096.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I would show you the inside but I got overexcited and put all my stuff in before remembering to take the picture. I&#8217;ve been walking around for years with a wallet that spews crumpled bills, credit cards and loose change everywhere. This wallet has the perfect interior (with TWO zippered compartments) and I feel I will be able to keep everything organized now. I think it can pass for a little clutch, which is a bonus. Also, hello! Purple! Thanks, BarbaraB!<\/p>\n<p>Weirdly, a band called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lazlo_Bane\">Lazlo Bane<\/a> has a song called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthelyrics.com\/lyrics\/lazlo_bane\/prada_wallet-lyrics-1141089.html\">Prada Wallet<\/a> that mentions a birthday. Here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Happy birthday baby\/<br \/>\nGuess what you didn&#8217;t get\/<br \/>\nIn addition\/<br \/>\nWhile you&#8217;re wishin&#8217;\/<br \/>\nKeep on fishin&#8217;\/<br \/>\nFor that Prada wallet<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I turned 40 last December, my gorgeous mother, BarbaraB, told me she wanted to take me shopping for a special birthday present. I couldn&#8217;t take the pressure of picking out my own gift for such a momentous occasion. I felt it had to be something amazing that I would never buy for myself. Tricky!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/happy-very-belated-birthday-to-me\/\">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":[52,29,15,42,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-birthdays","category-dogs","category-gorgeous-family","category-music","category-prada","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}