{"id":2616,"date":"2013-03-05T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2013-03-05T09:47:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T15:47:03","slug":"happy-birthday-to-trudy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2013\/03\/05\/happy-birthday-to-trudy\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Trudy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I woke at 12:15am.<\/p>\n

Hm, that’s not quite accurate.<\/em><\/p>\n

At 12:15am I rolled over in bed, having laid awake since we went to bed. I looked over at the glowing red digits on the alarm clock. It was time.\u00a0I got out of bed, walked over to my suitcase against the wall, unzipped a side pocket and pulled out a piece of stiff paper that was hidden there.<\/p>\n

The hotel room was dark, but the hotel room was small. So it was not hard to find my way to Trudy’s side of the bed. Once there, I set the paper on her side table and made some shuffling noises with the paper and her phone and the charging cord.<\/p>\n

“Oh look,” I said. “Look what I found!”<\/p>\n

She woke up with a start.<\/p>\n

“What!?”<\/p>\n

“Look what I found on the table.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

I turned on the lamp and handed her the stiff piece of paper.\u00a0It was black with blue paper pasted to the foreground. On the top against the black there was a large, script T<\/em> drawn in white pastel crayon. And there were two flower-buttons punched thru the paper to either side of the letter. Against the blue paper, it said\u00a0happy birthday, i love you<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Trudy took the card and held it an inch in front of her face so that she could read it without her glasses. I leaned over and hugged her.<\/p>\n

“Happy birthday to Trudy.”<\/p>\n

We turned out the lights and went back to sleep. The race, after all, wasn’t for another eight hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke at 12:15am. Hm, that’s not quite accurate. At 12:15am I rolled over in bed, having laid awake since we went to bed. I looked over at the glowing red digits on the alarm clock. It was time.\u00a0I got out of bed, walked over to my suitcase against the wall, unzipped a side pocket […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}