{"id":1699,"date":"2017-03-16T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2017-03-19T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:07:13","slug":"johnnys-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/johnnys-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Johnny&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/JohnnyBirthday.mp3\">George Harrison sings for John<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m so old I have a kid who&#8217;s 30, although I&#8217;m actually old enough to have a kid who&#8217;s 40, if I&#8217;d started sooner.<\/p>\n<p>I made a temporary special blog banner for the occasion:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1711 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/john-al_banscreen-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/john-al_banscreen-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/john-al_banscreen-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/john-al_banscreen-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/john-al_banscreen.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They almost never looked like this &#8211; John&#8217;s only about 19 months older than Al, so most of the time, as far as John was concerned, Al was useless as a little brother. He and John did everything at the same time, so John didn&#8217;t get to teach him stuff. But it&#8217;s a still a really nice shot, courtesy of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeff.lusis\">Dad<\/a>. Al is not quite one here, so John is about two and a half. We called Al suvhead at that time &#8211; he had what he called suvvy toys (fuzzy stuffed animals) and his hair was about the same. I think John was mostly John, but occasionally memar, or Mr. Pal. We called him Pal (this was the late &#8217;80s, days of Miami Vice and Don Johnson called everybody Pal) and then Mr. Pal, and then M.R. &#8211; and then he started calling himself memar &#8211; as in &#8220;me M.R.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how all the food&#8217;s going to work out &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/19\/johnnys-birthday-food\/\">I&#8217;ll tell you tomorrow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1708\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1708\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/johnoncountermadcity-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/johnoncountermadcity-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/johnoncountermadcity-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/johnoncountermadcity-1024x714.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An early outing &#8211; John on the counter at Mad City Music Exchange, with Dave Benton. John was probably less than a month old here.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Harrison sings for John I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m so old I have a kid who&#8217;s 30, although I&#8217;m actually old enough to have a kid who&#8217;s 40, if I&#8217;d started sooner. I made a temporary special blog banner for the occasion: They almost never looked like this &#8211; John&#8217;s only about 19 months older &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/16\/johnnys-birthday\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,23],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-1699","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-kids","10":"post_tag-memory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}