{"id":4098,"date":"2026-08-18T06:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=4098"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:17:27","slug":"birthday-dinner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/18\/birthday-dinner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! <\/strong> Damn!  I am getting old, 61 years old!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess getting old is better than the alternative, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All in all I feel good for my age, overweight as always, but hey &#8211; at least I&#8217;m good looking&#8230; ha ha!  And yeah, I will work on my weight as I always do, but as much as I love to eat, might be a never ending battle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went out and visited my Mom&#8217;s grave today, the cemetery looks horrible. The grass is dead everywhere and it looked like shit. It still felt good to talk to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I pulled the weeds around her plot and cleaned it up a bit as we talked &#8211; made me feel good and I told her a lot of things I know she already knew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The family all got together and we went to Urban Field Pizza &#8211; I have never been there and decided Rori and Me both LOVE Pizza so why not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had originally chose Nordy&#8217;s but hey are closed on Tuesdays, what the heck?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was an awesome dinner, the pizza was good, great atmosphere and to have all of my loving family there &#8211; priceless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pizza with green olives on it &#8211; mmm, that hits hard!  Love it!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Day 230 &#8211;<\/strong> Stay focused on what matters most and keep going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>TaLi Merchendise<\/em><\/strong> <em>\u2013<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/talimerch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/talimerch.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Custom embroidery, clothing, &amp; more\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your brand isn\u2019t ordinary, your merch shouldn\u2019t be either. Get premium embroidery from TaLi Merch and make every impression unforgettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! Damn! I am getting old, 61 years old! I guess getting old is better than the alternative, right? All in all I feel good for my age, overweight as always, but hey &#8211; at least I&#8217;m good looking&#8230; ha ha! And yeah, I will work on my weight as I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}