{"id":32420,"date":"2018-01-12T18:45:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=32420"},"modified":"2018-01-12T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T19:24:48","slug":"special-day-my-2018-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/special-day-my-2018-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"SPECIAL DAY: MY 2018 BIRTHDAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MY 2018 BIRTHDAY!<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1914728_10208117863357788_6774018890660520114_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32417\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1914728_10208117863357788_6774018890660520114_n-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"1914728_10208117863357788_6774018890660520114_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1914728_10208117863357788_6774018890660520114_n-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1914728_10208117863357788_6774018890660520114_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Even though I\u2019m trumpeting my January 14th birthday once again, (it\u2019s this Sunday, in case you\u2019ve lost track of the dates this month,) I have an unusual calmness about it this year.\u00a0 That\u2019s due to the fact that \u201c18\u201d means \u201clife\u201d to my ethnicity, so I\u2019m always happy when I see that number.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping it works that way for this new year of my life, knock on wood; from my mouth to God\u2019s ears; pu, pu, pu; fingers crossed\u2014you get my superstitious drift.<\/p>\n<p>So, to celebrate with you all, here\u2019s a short video about one of my favorite recent birthday stories (but come back here after you finish watching it, please!): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NLFgQRCDZ1M&amp;t=67s\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NLFgQRCDZ1M&amp;t=67s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wow\u2014that video was exhausting to do! And possibly to watch, as well! (And you don\u2019t know the half of it!!!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/17800192_748679291965184_8780704147431173980_n-e1515745328886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32415\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/17800192_748679291965184_8780704147431173980_n-e1515745328886-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"17800192_748679291965184_8780704147431173980_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/17800192_748679291965184_8780704147431173980_n-e1515745328886-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/17800192_748679291965184_8780704147431173980_n-e1515745328886.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>And let me just say that it\u2019s never fun when my birthday lands on a Sunday because I want to just stay home and watch the football play-offs! Which is not exactly a rollicking bday.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you\u2019re wondering what to get me as a birthday present, to cheer me up, I\u2019d love it if you would please just follow me across my platforms.\u00a0 That would be a fabulous gift! Here\u2019s all that info:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twitter: @MajorCelebrity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook Fan Page: It&#8217;s Not About Me TV<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram: majorcelebrity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>YouTube Channel:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCF7mwI2jwcB2xB9dBCBxLZg\">www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCF7mwI2jwcB2xB9dBCBxLZg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1922405_10152830119643872_3356639472989703803_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-32418\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1922405_10152830119643872_3356639472989703803_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1922405_10152830119643872_3356639472989703803_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1922405_10152830119643872_3356639472989703803_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1922405_10152830119643872_3356639472989703803_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By the way\u2014I\u2019ll be taking this coming Monday off because it\u2019s Martin Luther King Day. (And the day after my birthday, of course!!! I\u2019m hoping that I\u2019ll need to rest-up after all the celebrating I\u2019ll be doing this entire week-end! Again, see all my superstitious notes from the first paragraph.) So, I\u2019ll meet you all back here on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh\u2014I almost forgot\u2014Happy Birthday to <em>me<\/em>!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MY 2018 BIRTHDAY! Even though I\u2019m trumpeting my January 14th birthday once again, (it\u2019s this Sunday, in case you\u2019ve lost track of the dates this month,) I have an unusual calmness about it this year.\u00a0 That\u2019s due to the fact that \u201c18\u201d means \u201clife\u201d to my ethnicity, so I\u2019m always happy when I see that<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/special-day-my-2018-birthday\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-special-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32420"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32431,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32420\/revisions\/32431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}