{"id":17537,"date":"2023-07-27T16:55:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=17537"},"modified":"2025-07-28T07:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:50:42","slug":"daily_3090_-_happy_birthday_to_me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/07\/27\/daily_3090_-_happy_birthday_to_me\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3090 &#8211; happy birthday to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3090_birthday_cake_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nHappy 46th birthday to me! I got cake. Eric made a variation on the redcurrant cake from my childhood, this time with gooseberries.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve more or less managed to learn my age, so that I know what to answer when people ask instead of calculating every time, and then they yank it away again and I have to learn a new number!<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid suggested a mnemonic for this year&#8217;s number. 4 and 6 make 10, or as it&#8217;s called in Swedish, 4 and 6 are &#8220;ten buddies&#8221;. That&#8217;s easier to remember than a random number.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3090_birthday_cake_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 46th birthday to me! I got cake. Eric made a variation on the redcurrant cake from my childhood, this time with gooseberries. I&#8217;ve more or less managed to learn my age, so that I know what to answer when people ask instead of calculating every time, and then they yank it away again and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[792,790,18,745,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-celebrations","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20903,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions\/20903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}