{"id":907,"date":"2009-12-01T00:45:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T04:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2009-12-01T00:45:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T04:45:24","slug":"happy-birthday-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Frank!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Frank-is-60-003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"326\" alt=\"Frank is 60 003\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Frank-is-60-003_thumb.jpg\" width=\"434\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This has been a rough year.&nbsp; We have been swamped with&nbsp; many different issues with which we needed to deal.&nbsp; And business has not been good for anybody.&nbsp; Frank has lost several of his sisters in the last couple of years.&nbsp; But last week his oldest full sister died and it has bothering him nonstop.<\/p>\n<p>So, when his sister, Elizabeth, and her husband Bob asked us out to dinner for his birthday, he was pleased.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve given up on Birthday celebrations for Frank.&nbsp; He always acts disgruntled and unhappy afterwards.&nbsp; I had a big party for him several years ago and he just didn&#8217;t enjoy it- so I quit trying.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight he was happy.&nbsp; It is hard when you are the youngest of 12 siblings and don&#8217;t keep in close touch.&nbsp; I am thankful that Elizabeth reached out to him.<\/p>\n<p>Sisters are really good that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a rough year.&nbsp; We have been swamped with&nbsp; many different issues with which we needed to deal.&nbsp; And business has not been good for anybody.&nbsp; Frank has lost several of his sisters in the last couple of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}