{"id":1482,"date":"2007-05-23T12:03:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/happy-birthday-sidonie-ridgway-stern\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T12:03:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T10:03:28","slug":"happy-birthday-sidonie-ridgway-stern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/23\/happy-birthday-sidonie-ridgway-stern\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Sidonie Ridgway Stern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my daughter&#8217;s first birthday today, so my sister and aunt and uncle are visiting us here in Dublin. What a lovely day!<\/p>\n<p>Birthdays are delicious.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/217\/510623048_f236e2fab2.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some people don&#8217;t make a big deal of birthdays. Others love them. For me, it and Thanksgiving are the two best (and non-secular!) holidays. Thanksgiving gives us space to be thankful and appreciate all the wonderful things in our lives &#8211; it also happens to have personal meaning for me, ever since coming home from the hospital after a terrible car accident when I was 17, just in time for Thanksgiving. Birthdays, on the other hand, are like personal Thanksgivings. They are a chance to be thankful for the relationship you have with one special person &#8211; it is a day for those you love and who love you to celebrate your life, your being, you. I feel ever so lucky to spend this time with my daughter, to delight in her playing and development with my wife and family.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday my little angel.<\/p>\n<p>More on <a href=\"http:\/\/nerdtobe.net\/2007\/05\/23\/you-say-its-your-birthday\/\">Sid&#8217;s blog<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s my daughter&#8217;s first birthday today, so my sister and aunt and uncle are visiting us here in Dublin. What a lovely day! Birthdays are delicious. Some people don&#8217;t make a big deal of birthdays. Others love them. For me, it and Thanksgiving are the two best (and non-secular!) holidays. Thanksgiving gives us space to [&hellip;]<\/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":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-nU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1709,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/27\/happy-thanksgiving\/","url_meta":{"origin":1482,"position":0},"title":"Happy Thanksgiving","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 November 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A good friend wrote to me from South Africa that (I'm paraphrasing here) \"the US blogs are abuzz with Thanksgiving - must be a big deal there!\" Since I grew up with it, I sometimes forget that to most people in the world, it's just this weird holiday they hear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;me&quot;","block_context":{"text":"me","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/me\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":939,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/25\/the-netartists\/","url_meta":{"origin":1482,"position":1},"title":"the net.artists","author":"nathaniel","date":"25 November 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Howdy all. 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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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;uncategorical&quot;","block_context":{"text":"uncategorical","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/old-categories\/uncategorical\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5767,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/heidegger-in-the-kitchen\/","url_meta":{"origin":1482,"position":4},"title":"Heidegger in the Kitchen","author":"nathaniel","date":"28 November 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This 3-year-old,\u00c2\u00a0mainstream \"for beginners\" type video totally made my morning (though I tend to think of Heidegger as more of a phenomenologist than existentialist). Seriously. Watch it if you haven't seen it. It's really good. 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