{"id":111,"date":"2003-06-07T18:56:45","date_gmt":"2003-06-07T23:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2005-02-04T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T10:31:22","slug":"happy-day-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/07\/happy-day-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"happy day to me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicole and I are still very sick but, despite this, we are having a dinner
\n party tonight to celebrate my birthday. I hope we do not pay for it with further
\n ill health tomorrow.
\n Lot’s of work to do this week, so you may not be seeing much action on this
\n blog. Though you will likely hear about all of this week’s adventures, next
\n week :)
\n This<\/a>
\n is one of the best articles I’ve read about Dean yet. Read
\n it.<\/a>
\n He is also gaining speed in The
\n New Republic’s Primary contest.<\/a> Winner gets endorsed… (I am appalled that
\n Lieberman is doing so well.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicole and I are still very sick but, despite this, we are having a dinner party tonight to celebrate my birthday. I hope we do not pay for it with further ill health tomorrow. Lot’s of work to do this week, so you may not be seeing much action on this blog. Though you will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-1N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/20\/blogging-begins-numero-uno\/","url_meta":{"origin":111,"position":0},"title":"blogging begins – numero uno","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 February 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I decided to take a leaf out of the books of josh and jonah and start a weblog on my site. 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