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<\/p>\nHappy 8th birthday to Liat, my co-favorite niece!<\/p>\n
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(Note: yes, the candles show that this picture is from her <\/em>7th birthday. I’m a total heel for being unable to attend her birthday party this year, but I promise to make it up to her this summer when she comes out to visit!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy 8th birthday to Liat, my co-favorite niece! (Note: yes, the candles show that this picture is from her 7th birthday. I’m a total heel for being unable to attend her birthday party this year, but I promise to make it up to her this summer when she comes out to visit!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-tJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":511,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-birthday-2","url_meta":{"origin":1843,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday","author":"Gil","date":"March 8, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"The Official VM Mom turns [fill in number here] today!","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1639,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-birthday-deb","url_meta":{"origin":1843,"position":1},"title":"Happy Birthday, Deb!","author":"Gil","date":"August 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"(I know: It's a much more conventional pic than the ones Paul (right) posted today. . .)","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-birthday-deb#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":679,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/happy-birthday","url_meta":{"origin":1843,"position":2},"title":"Happy Birthday!","author":"Gil","date":"October 25, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"According to the wall calendar in my office, Monday was \"UN Day\"! 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