{"id":651,"date":"2008-03-15T12:29:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/15\/its-my-birthday-and-all-i-want-to-do-is-sleep\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T12:29:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T17:29:33","slug":"its-my-birthday-and-all-i-want-to-do-is-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/15\/its-my-birthday-and-all-i-want-to-do-is-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s my birthday and all I want to do is sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a\u00c2\u00a0 one day respite between New York City publicity (which happens to be my birthday). Dinner tonight with my closest friends and then book tour\u00c2\u00a0 starts tomorrow. It goes Washington &#8211;&gt; Philly &#8211;&gt; Boston &#8211;&gt; San Francisco &#8211;&gt; Los Angeles &#8211;&gt; Seattle &#8211;&gt; (Home in NYC for a few days) &#8211;&gt; Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Put together by the amazing Cary Goldstein. We are getting a good bit of local media, which is what one ideally wants on book tour.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten quite a number of birthday wishes via Facebook, which I find intriguing. It&#8217;s interesting to me all the ways there are to wish someone a happy birthday. Once upon a time there was 1) in person 2) phone call and 3) by card. Starting a few years ago, I started getting message by e-mail, then e-card, then IM, then txt. The newest thing started just last year, this year as Facebook opened itself up to the universe&#8230;wall postings. Right now, as of today, I have gotten only one phone call, from my friend Brendan in Chicago, who defiantly does not have a Facebook account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a\u00c2\u00a0 one day respite between New York City publicity (which happens to be my birthday). Dinner tonight with my closest friends and then book tour\u00c2\u00a0 starts tomorrow. It goes Washington &#8211;&gt; Philly &#8211;&gt; Boston &#8211;&gt; San Francisco &#8211;&gt; Los Angeles &#8211;&gt; Seattle &#8211;&gt; (Home in NYC for a few days) &#8211;&gt; Chicago. Put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-av","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}