{"id":2969,"date":"2011-11-06T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T16:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2012-04-26T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T11:26:24","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/?p=2969","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2970\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Happy-Birthday-To-Me-022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2970\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2970\" title=\"Happy Birthday To Me 022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Happy-Birthday-To-Me-022-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surprised Birthday Girl after blowing out the candles<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Saturday, 5 November &#8211; My Birthday!\u00a0 The day spent quietly at home &#8230; the evening was to be otherwise.\u00a0 Late morning and Costas was off on foot to the Vets with two of the four cats &#8211; Larissa and Sydney in the cage, due for their annual shots.\u00a0 When he returned for the other two, Oliver was nowhere to be found.\u00a0 So, second trip with Bob alone then a third time with Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>During our late afternoon siesta came a knock at the gate &#8230; the florist delivering a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me from Raymond and Heather.\u00a0 What a lovely, lovely\u00a0surprise!<\/p>\n<p>By 1930 hours we were ready to walk to Nektarios&#8217; Taverna in the Old Harbour &#8230; everyone else in our party travelling there by motorbike or scooter.\u00a0 Eighteen of us in all &#8230; the Greek, the Antipodean and sixteen others from England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.\u00a0 A couple of drinks then coats on to go outside and watch the fireworks display &#8211; unbelievable!\u00a0 Back inside to the warmth and a spread of wonderful, simple Greek fare\u00a0was very soon to be on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2200 hours, Costas asked how to use my camera.\u00a0 I had no idea what was going on.\u00a0 Then, out from the kitchen came my Birthday\u00a0Cake alight with candles &#8230; I was quite simply, blown away.\u00a0 Everyone sang Happy Birthday to me, I blew the candles out in one breath, then we all devoured a piece, it was wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop, Liotrivi nearby &#8230; Costas and I, Raymond and Heather, Penny, Anna and Marilyn.\u00a0 Still the night was not over &#8230; Costas and I walked back to the area of Dapia to meet Raymond and Heather in our favourite watering hole &#8211; Balkoni Bar.\u00a0 We would finally be home around 0300 hours &#8230; what a memorable birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 5 November &#8211; My Birthday!\u00a0 The day spent quietly at home &#8230; the evening was to be otherwise.\u00a0 Late morning and Costas was off on foot to the Vets with two of the four cats &#8211; Larissa and Sydney in the cage, due for their annual shots.\u00a0 When he returned for the other two, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3195,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itisallgreek2me.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}