{"id":13376,"date":"2015-10-20T22:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T03:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=13376"},"modified":"2015-10-20T22:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T03:41:32","slug":"moms-birthday-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=13376","title":{"rendered":"Mom&#8217;s Birthday Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d been so busy that I hadn&#8217;t seen my mom for a while. Usually I&#8217;m really good about organizing some sort family dinner or other get together to celebrate birthdays and such. We have had absolutely no time for anything lately. Despite that, we wanted to make sure that she knew that we didn&#8217;t forget about her birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/22018004642\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5696\/22018004642_9a882ce396_n.jpg\" width=\"230\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/22000715696\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/757\/22000715696_f83db95679_n.jpg\" width=\"230\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\nI was scheduled to sub for her bowling team on October 7, the day after her birthday, so we decided to surprise her. For her birthday present this year, I got her bowling jewelry. She got earrings and a matching necklace. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/22004121016\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"   title=\"Untitled\"><img src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5725\/22004121016_03a936b752.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Brian and I ordered ice cream cake from Dairy Queen, which Brian picked up on his way to the bowling alley. She totally didn&#8217;t expect it. We shared the cake with the opposing team and still had some left over which we ended up giving to the concession employees at the bowling alley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy belated birthday, mom!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of birthdays, guess whose birthday is coming up in ten days? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;d been so busy that I hadn&#8217;t seen my mom for a while. Usually I&#8217;m really good about organizing some sort family dinner or other get together to celebrate birthdays and such. We have had absolutely no time for anything lately. Despite that, we wanted to make sure that she knew that we didn&#8217;t forget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340,6,10],"tags":[115,2474,464],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13383,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13376\/revisions\/13383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}