{"id":8393,"date":"2010-03-07T18:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2010-03-07T18:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T07:01:43","slug":"only-one-day-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/?p=8393","title":{"rendered":"Only one day each year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIts that time of the year &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAmong the gifts I received &#8230; a helmet to surf with. I have been making off-hand comments about how dangerous the surf is getting when crowded and that I might have to wear a helmet &#8211; more and more surfers are doing so now. I would never have done it myself though &#8211; there is still some pride! But now I have to!<\/p>\n<p>And, &#8230; a year&#8217;s supply of my favourite Indian hand-made sandalwood soap &#8211; our house is very fragrant this evening!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/birthday_cake_small_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/birthday_cake_small_1.jpg\" alt=\"birthday_cake_small_1\" title=\"birthday_cake_small_1\" width=\"256\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-563\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>The number of candles on the cake represent a complex non-linear function of my age. <\/p>\n<p>On the same day in 1917, the first jazz record titled <em>Dixie Jass Band One Step<\/em> was recorded by the Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jass Band in Camden, New Jersey (the spelling Jazz was a few years off yet). Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ykzWvnm_YE\">original recording<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its that time of the year &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","entry","no-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billmitchell.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}