{"id":113,"date":"2003-06-05T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2003-06-05T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2005-02-04T12:32:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T10:32:09","slug":"whatd-i-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/05\/whatd-i-get\/","title":{"rendered":"what’d I get?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s my birthday today!!! Woohoo!
\nFrom my better half, I got some cozy slippers (wearing them now), a beautiful
\npair of dark brown corduroys (perfect fit – also wearing) and the
\nlatest Barbara Trapido novel<\/a> (one of my favorite authors; oddly, even though
\nshe is South African and it is her first novel about South Africa – she now lives
\nin Oxford – Nicole had to special order it from overseas. It’s not yet out here.).
\nTo appease my children’s book fetish (have I mentioned I started writing one,
\nmyself, a few weeks ago? It’s fun :), my sister has sent me the new Artemis
\nFowl book<\/a> (not here yet) and my parents have given me some cash "specifically
\nfor buying Harry
\nPotter & the Order of the Phoenix,<\/a> when it comes out on June 21st."
\nAnd of course Hillary Clinton decided to release her
\nnew book<\/a> just around birthday time; little does she know that I will not be
\npurchasing it, despite its appeal to children – Republicans, Democrats & Independents,
\nalike.
\nNo one has bought me a new Mac, so you may still do so (mailing address available
\non
\nrequest).<\/a>
\nSpeaking of Harry Potter, I stumbled on this
\nbook<\/a> today, while surfing. YAY! A justification for me to read the books (like
\nI need one)! Anywho, it’ll hopefully make it to SA soon enough. It’d be a great
\nresource for my own writing endeavors.
\nHoping to go to the studio for a few hours today, to work on To Sir, With
\nLove,<\/em> part of serial
\nfaces.<\/a><\/em> I’m still feeling a little sickly (I don’t think I’ve mentioned
\nI’ve been sick over the past week or so), but other than that, it’s already been
\na fab day – and it’s still early!
\n"You say it’s your birthday!" (Do do do do do doooo, do do!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s my birthday today!!! Woohoo! From my better half, I got some cozy slippers (wearing them now), a beautiful pair of dark brown corduroys (perfect fit – also wearing) and the latest Barbara Trapido novel (one of my favorite authors; oddly, even though she is South African and it is her first novel about South […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-1P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":934,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/23\/my-ghost-in-the-bush-of-lies\/","url_meta":{"origin":113,"position":0},"title":"my ghost in the bush of lies","author":"kaganof","date":"23 November 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"MY GHOST IN THE BUSH OF LIES AUTHOR: PAUL WESSELS PUBLISHER: DEEP SOUTH PUBLISHING (ISBN:0-9584542-8-0) PRICE R85,00 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is the end, my offence, my word-bomb, disturbing the populace. 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