{"id":138,"date":"2004-05-14T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2004-05-14T12:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/happy_birthday_1.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:48:44","slug":"happy_birthday_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/happy_birthday_1.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Emily!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been rather heavy around here lately, I thought it&#8217;d be good to write about some little things that happened recently that I&#8217;ve overlooked.<br \/>\nMy middle daughter turned 7 on the 5th.  She got her Schaefer tradition of breakfast in bed, which for a 7 year old is <i>really<\/i> cool.  We also gave her a chioce of us buying her gifts or spendign the money on a party for her friends.  She of chose the party and had an absolute blast.  It was a princess theme; they made princes hats (which look like fancy decorated dunce caps!), played &#8216;braid the princess hair&#8217; (using plates with princess faces and golden yarn hair hung on the wall) and played kiss the frog.  That&#8217;s basically pin the tail on the donkey ecept that the donkey is a frog (with crown) and the girls put on bright red lipstick and had to kiss the frog poster blindfolded.  Closest lip prints wins.<br \/>\nEmily is so energetic and social, she was in cloud nine after the party.  She just loves life and lives it with more gusto than most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been rather heavy around here lately, I thought it&#8217;d be good to write about some little things that happened recently that I&#8217;ve overlooked. My middle daughter turned 7<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/happy_birthday_1.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday Emily!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday Emily! - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/happy_birthday_1.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Birthday Emily! - salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Things have been rather heavy around here lately, I thought it&#8217;d be good to write about some little things that happened recently that I&#8217;ve overlooked. 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