{"id":33834,"date":"2022-01-22T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T19:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=33834"},"modified":"2022-01-23T16:32:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T00:32:23","slug":"birthday-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=33834","title":{"rendered":"Birthday Things."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"happy<\/p>\n\n\n

Even though I usually try to let my birthday pass without much fanfare, this past week has been a reminder that life should be celebrated.<\/p>\n

I got to have drinks with my almost birthday twin Christine, who was the second of my dearest friends to be diagnosed with breast cancer last year. It’s the first time I’ve seen her since she had her surgery last month, and I was so grateful to have her here with us, healthy, happy and cancer-free.<\/p>\n

Shi wasn’t able to attend my birthday dinner because her husband was exposed to covid the day before and she wanted to be safe. Life has taken a 180 since this pandemic started two years ago, but I’m glad that anyone I know who has gotten covid has recovered from it.<\/p>\n

While enjoying birthday macarons at Bottega Louie<\/a>, a man sitting at the bar next us passed out. Initially, I thought he was drunk (it was late at night in DTLA, after all), but he was having a medical emergency. He came to for a second before slipping out of consciousness again and sliding onto the floor. The girl who was with him started doing chest compressions as he lay lifeless on the ground, and I stood there horrified. An ambulance arrived, and I left there completely traumatized. He couldn’t have been older than me, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it ever since.<\/p>\n

All that to say, life’s too short to be worrying about my ebbing youth and unfulfilled timelines of where I should be at this point in my life. I’m lucky to still be here and am looking forward to more trips around the sun with you guys \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though I usually try to let my birthday pass without much fanfare, this past week has been a reminder that life should be celebrated. I got to have drinks with my almost birthday twin Christine, who was the second of my dearest friends to be diagnosed with breast cancer last year. It’s the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33834"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33846,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33834\/revisions\/33846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}