{"id":1183,"date":"2007-02-09T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:36:08","slug":"a-motley-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"A motley crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/sixth-20bday-20copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/sixth-20bday-20copy-300x277.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I dug around in that huge tub of *stuff* from my dad&#8217;s looking for an idea of what to write about tonight and came up with this pic from my sixth birthday party. I&#8217;m the one wearing the tall crown and pigtails. We were a motley bunch of kids! These were all my little friends from the neighborhood. I&#8217;m kind of amazed that I can remember all of their names 30 years later, even though I&#8217;m not in touch with any of them. Once in a while I run into the tall girl standing behind me on the left; her dad still lives with his new wife across the street from where we grew up. My husband and I visit them at Christmastime and bring cookies.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">My birthday is in June, so I always had a party in the backyard. I don&#8217;t remember doing much of anything besides running around in the bushes and eating ice-cream sandwiches. I laugh remembering that, considering the highly-orchestrated birthday parties people have for their kids nowadays. It must have been enough for my mom to have 8 or 9 of my friends over at the same time and keep us from getting into very much trouble.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dug around in that huge tub of *stuff* from my dad&#8217;s looking for an idea of what to write about tonight and came up with this pic from my sixth birthday party. I&#8217;m the one wearing the tall crown and pigtails. We were a motley bunch of kids! These were all my little friends &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A motley crew<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}