{"id":16169,"date":"2015-08-18T21:40:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T03:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=16169"},"modified":"2015-08-18T21:40:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T03:40:14","slug":"its-my-birthday-it-was-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2015\/08\/its-my-birthday-it-was-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s my birthday! &#8230; it WAS my birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d really like to write a post every day &#8211; for me&#8230;because I enjoy it and because it is nice to look back sometimes.  I started this post on Sunday&#8230;on my birthday&#8230;but this and that and now it is Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>And although I don&#8217;t like or want a party or presents or fuss, I DO enjoy celebrating my birthday.  I mean, a birthday, means another year of life.  Maybe when I get to the &#8220;other&#8221; side, I will wonder why I wanted to hang on &#8220;here&#8221;, but here is what I know and so I am always grateful to be here another year.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8230;well, I am VERY grateful that it cooled in time for my birthday&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Area Forecast Discussion<br \/>\nNational Weather Service Missoula MT<br \/>\n1230 PM MDT SUN AUG 16 2015<\/p>\n<p>.DISCUSSION&#8230;Cool nights and breezy mild afternoons are the rule<br \/>\nthis week as we continue to be affected by polar maritime cold<br \/>\nfronts while the higher latitides pattern starts to look more<br \/>\nlike early fall. Temperatures will generally be near normal<br \/>\nthrough Thursday. Concerns for fires the next few days are from<br \/>\nlightning chances near the Canadian border to along the divide<br \/>\nMonday as well as winds in the afternoon for midweek through<br \/>\nFriday. A decent precipitation event for the Glacier Park area is<br \/>\npossible Friday with a stronger cold front. Morning temperatures<br \/>\ncould also be quite chilly this weekend area-wide with patchy<br \/>\nfrost possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, it remained VERY smoky and between the smoke and the dust and the early dropping pine needles&#8230;my ears-nose-throat are complaining.  And my eyes are puffy in the morning.  And there is not much relief in sight.  But it is cool and that, I am VERY grateful for!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also grateful that I was able to spend my birthday with my best boys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2096.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2096.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2098.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2098.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2101.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2101.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2203.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug15\/BdayBehind2103.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smoky birthday morning.  But a morning with Bear and Auggie and a cup of coffee on Beardog Point.<\/p>\n<p>It WAS my birthday and it WAS a wonderful day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d really like to write a post every day &#8211; for me&#8230;because I enjoy it and because it is nice to look back sometimes. I started this post on Sunday&#8230;on my birthday&#8230;but this and that and now it is Tuesday evening. And although I don&#8217;t like or want a party or presents or fuss, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16174,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16169\/revisions\/16174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}