{"id":3000,"date":"2022-06-25T13:36:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T13:36:35","slug":"happy-birthday-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3000","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Besides being exactly six months until Christmas, today is Birthday Day \u2014 not one, but two of our kids celebrate their birthdays today. Dave and Chassie were born on the same day, exactly one year apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dave was born on a Wednesday under the sign of Cancer, Jimmy Carter was President and Pope John Paul II was leading he Catholic Church.<br>Chassie was born on a Thursday under the sign of Cancer, Ronald Reagan was President and Pope Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.<br>Dave is a member of Generation X and was born in the Chinese Zodiac year of the Monkey.\u00a0<br>Chassie is a member of the Millennial Generation and was born in the Chinese Zodiac year of the Rooster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the past years, I\u2019ve referred to Dave and Chassie as our \u201cIrish Twins\u201d because they were born on the same day, one year apart. I\u2019ve been corrected a number of times for using Irish Twins incorrectly, so I should attempt to set the record straight. Technically, Irish Twins are siblings that are born 12 (or less) months apart. So, even though it could be applied to siblings born less than 12 months apart, far and away the most common use of the phrase <em>Irish Twins<\/em> is to describe siblings born <em>exactly<\/em> 12 months apart. But the fact that Dave and Chassie aren\u2019t siblings, the use of Irish Twins is incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So even though I like the term Irish Twins, I need to come up with another phrase\u2026. I\u2019ve thought about <em>date twins, astro-twins, astrology twins<\/em> or maybe <em>star twins<\/em>. Maybe I\u2019ll give this some more thought and come up with something better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for now, I\u2019ll just wish my favorite two people that share a common birthday date the happiest of birthdays. Happy Birthday Dave and Chassie \u2014 hope we can get together soon!<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides being exactly six months until Christmas, today is Birthday Day \u2014 not one, but two of our kids celebrate their birthdays today. Dave and Chassie were born on the same day, exactly one year apart. Dave was born on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=3000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3001,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}