{"id":15498,"date":"2017-03-20T12:58:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2017\/03\/20\/15498.html"},"modified":"2017-03-20T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T19:58:50","slug":"the-non-party-of-the-first-par","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2017\/03\/20\/the-non-party-of-the-first-par\/","title":{"rendered":"The non-party of the first part"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had been planning to have a birthday party this year; partly just because it's been a long time since I've had one, partly because it felt simpler\/easier than having one for a Big Round-Number Birthday next year, partly just to see friends and celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>But my original plan was to have it on the 25th, and I failed to get my act together, and the 25th is now much too soon, so I was going to move it to the 1st, but that's also fairly soon now. And I realized this morning that all the requisite planning and decisionmaking and preparation was feeling like a chore rather than something fun. I've been low on social energy lately even by my usual standards; I think a big party would be less fun for me right now than it would be worth.<\/p>\n<p>So I decided not to have a birthday party after all. Maybe later in the year I'll try to have a party with more notice, we'll see.<\/p>\n<p>(One of the sticking points for this was that I wanted to make it an evening party like I used to have, rather than an afternoon thing like most of the (few) events I've hosted in the past few years. But this is a quiet neighborhood and I think my neighbors would get upset if I had a party that lasted too late into the night. I think I can probably do something like 8-11 pm without it being too much of a problem (especially if I tell my nearest neighbors to let me know if it's too loud), but figuring out all that seemed like a hassle.)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been planning to have a birthday party this year; partly just because it&#8217;s been a long time since&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-socializing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}