{"id":463,"date":"2006-03-03T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/03\/festival-of-me\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T17:38:26","slug":"festival-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/festival-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/03\/birthday_cake.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"I Don't Like Chocolate Cake\" title=\"I Don't Like Chocolate Cake\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So, when you hit your first birthday you&#8217;re starting your second year of life, right?<\/p>\n<p>And when you hit you second birthday you&#8217;re starting your <font style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">second<\/font>third year of life?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that means that when you hit your 99th birthday, you&#8217;re starting your 100th year of life. (I can actually prove this via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mathematical_induction\">mathematical induction<\/a>, if you doubt me.)<\/p>\n<p>Which means that as of right now (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Standard_Time\">AST<\/a>), I am one third of the way to starting my 100th year of life.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, it feels pretty much the same as last year, except that it seems like this one went by even faster. At this point, I&#8217;m expecting this acceleration of time to continue until I die.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">So, when you hit your first birthday you&#8217;re starting your second year of life, right? And when you hit you second birthday you&#8217;re starting your secondthird year of life? Well, that means that when you hit your 99th birthday, you&#8217;re starting your 100th year of life. (I can actually prove this via mathematical induction, if you doubt me.) Which means&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/03\/festival-of-me\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-7t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}