{"id":491,"date":"2011-01-12T22:37:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T21:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2011-01-12T22:37:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T21:37:04","slug":"40th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/01\/40th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"40th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-493\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/birthday40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-493 \" title=\"40th Birthday Cake .... Yes thats me .....\" src=\"http:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/birthday40.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/birthday40.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/birthday40-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">God I&#39;m Handsome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Its finally happened.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in that significant statistical group called the &#8220;over 40&#8217;s&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first advert I saw this morning related to bowel and bladder problems and started &#8220;Are you over 40?&#8221;. Drat, they&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n<p>Many will know that when I was 25 I didnt think I&#8217;d get to 30 and now look at me, I&#8217;m 40, Ive just got married to a wonderful woman and things couldnt be better. Don&#8217;t want to pop my clogs now &#8211; even with this flu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We popped out to the local pub tonight &#8211; feeling well enough to leave the house for nearly the first time in 3 weeks and had a meal with my parents and my brothers family,and was presented with this cake.\u00a0 Yes it&#8217;s me. When\u00a0 I had slightly more hair, slightly rosier cheeks and much better fashion sense \ud83d\ude42 (last week &#8211; before I hit 40 !!!)<\/p>\n<p>Ive had a wonderful day. Don&#8217;t normally take the day off work but given the recent illness, another day wasnt going to make much difference, so \u00a0other than checking a few emails, Ive had a restful-ish day &#8211; allthough still not well enough for the xbox \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its finally happened. I&#8217;m in that significant statistical group called the &#8220;over 40&#8217;s&#8221; The first advert I saw this morning related to bowel and bladder problems and started &#8220;Are you over 40?&#8221;. Drat, they&#8217;ve heard. Many will know that when I was 25 I didnt think I&#8217;d get to 30 and now look at me, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-family","clearfix","post-index"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byng.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}