{"id":3555,"date":"2014-12-13T15:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T21:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2014-12-18T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T17:09:47","slug":"3555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Curse of Sagittarius"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally found the coffee cup I\u00a0\"b-day<\/a>didn’t know I always wanted. Every one with a December birthday would probably identify with the stated sentiment. It is the curse of Sagittarius. Probably Capricorn\u00a0too.<\/p>\n

I was always told as a child, “Sorry son, we didn’t get you much for your birthday, you’l get the really good stuff on Christmas. \u00a0I swear\u00a0I heard\u00a0it every year, it is the god awful truth. I just had\u00a0to live with it and pretend I understood. I learned early that December birthdays are a nuisance or get in the way of other “seasonal” things. I know\u00a0Jesus never had the issue.<\/p>\n

It did help me form one of my life philosophies. “Just because you can explain it to me and I say I\u00a0understand, it’s not an admission\u00a0from me\u00a0that I like it.” Too many people think giving a reason makes everything ok, well it doesn’t.<\/p>\n

I have shortened it to, “Just because I say I understand, doesn’t mean I like it.”<\/p>\n

“Hey Don, we didn’t get you anything for your birthday because, well Christmas is so close.” “Oh yeah, that’s understandable,” like I haven’t heard it all my life.<\/p>\n

I think it did make me stronger and slightly more tolerant of “waiting for the good things” to happen in life.<\/p>\n

So my birthdays\u00a0are always\u00a0non expectation days, no big deal, not\u00a0forgotten just\u00a0put off. \u00a0I am now covered on the actual date by a few Facebook comments and the family sends me a text message. We then celebrate on a mutually more convenient date. These\u00a0days, I just go get what I want anyway. Maybe I should buy this cup? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally found the coffee cup I\u00a0didn’t know I always wanted. Every one with a December birthday would probably identify with the stated sentiment. It is the curse of Sagittarius. Probably Capricorn\u00a0too. I was always told as a child, “Sorry son, we didn’t get you much for your birthday, you’l get the really good stuff on Christmas. \u00a0I swear\u00a0I heard\u00a0it every year, it is the god awful truth. I just had\u00a0to live with it and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}