***** BIRTHDAY<\/p>\n
Did you catch that thing in the last post about the Epiphany celebrations in Ireland?\u00c2\u00a0 Where they honor today as “Women’s Christmas” and all the women party all day while the good gents take over all duties of home and family?\u00c2\u00a0 I completely and totally subscribe to that tradition as my Official Birthday Tradition from now on.\u00c2\u00a0 Paul willingly and thoughtful fulfilled all that he could to free me up today, but unfortunately work was not quite so forgiving.\u00c2\u00a0 Next year I’ll plan ahead.<\/p>\n
***** PRESENTS<\/p>\n
Alejna<\/a> and I are introducing THE BEST OF JUST POSTS 2009 — we (with other readers, hopefully you, too!) are looking for THE BEST Just Posts<\/a> from last year.\u00c2\u00a0 Nominations for the year’s best posts are currently being accepted.\u00c2\u00a0 In roughly two weeks (stay tuned!) we will open up a space for online voting and give awards (presents! whee!) to the winner in each category.\u00c2\u00a0 (You’re perfectly welcome to start practicing your fabulous acceptance speech; you’ll find no judgment here.)<\/p>\n You can view all the Just Posts from last year by going here<\/a> and read more about the Just Posts here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Just Post entries are encouraged from anyone at anytime!<\/p>\n ***** AND ANOTHER YEAR…<\/p>\n I participated in Holidailies<\/a> again this year and enjoyed the challenge.\u00c2\u00a0 My humble thanks go out to the two<\/a> who<\/a> host the event.\u00c2\u00a0 The community they create is warm and friendly; I’ve found other<\/a> interesting<\/a> and kind<\/a> bloggers<\/a> through the site.\u00c2\u00a0 They also chose a ‘best of’<\/a> that is selective enough to be manageable to read, which is a great way to find other interesting blogs (and thank you, mystery readers for my own additions to this list!)<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ***** BIRTHDAY Did you catch that thing in the last post about the Epiphany celebrations in Ireland?\u00c2\u00a0 Where they honor today as “Women’s Christmas” and all the women party all day while the good gents take over all duties of home and family?\u00c2\u00a0 I completely and totally subscribe to that tradition as my Official Birthday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[114],"tags":[177,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}