{"id":179,"date":"2010-02-22T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=179"},"modified":"2010-02-22T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T08:44:00","slug":"happy-birthday-to-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To L"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span><b>Happy Birthday to L<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><b>Happy Birthday to You<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><b><i>(You look like a monkey<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><b><i>And live in a zoo)<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I just can&#8217;t leave that last stanza off. Must be all the bad influences when I was growing up. As I mentioned before, today is the lovely L&#8217;s birthday. The five day span of me being the old coot to her young damsel is now over for another year. You can help celebrate by leaving a happy birthday comment for her. I have it on good authority she will not see this until tonight.<\/p>\n<p>First up in our celebration, a Monkee video. The Monkees were\/are one of L&#8217;s favorite groups and a teenage heart-throb of hers. In fact, a revival with three of the four Monkees is one of the few occasions that L ever successfully drug me to a teeny-gum concert. So here they are in their heyday:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>You know you are getting up there when this cartoon applies to you. <i>(Nudge, nudge, hint, hint.)<\/i><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/S4JAYwFJGOI\/AAAAAAAAAjA\/LVwu0y5ulNU\/s1600-h\/lbd_cartoon.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_RvuxwM9-lN0\/S4JAYwFJGOI\/AAAAAAAAAjA\/LVwu0y5ulNU\/s640\/lbd_cartoon.jpeg\" width=\"556\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span><b>Happy Birthday L<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span><b>Many Happy Returns<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to L Happy Birthday to You (You look like a monkey And live in a zoo) I just can&#8217;t leave that last stanza off. Must be all the bad influences when I was growing up. As I mentioned before, today is the lovely L&#8217;s birthday. The five day span of me being the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=179\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Birthday To L<\/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":[26,229],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}