{"id":246,"date":"2005-12-09T15:12:14","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2005-12-09T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2005-12-09T15:12:14","slug":"marty-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/archives\/246","title":{"rendered":"Marty Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe nobody on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowedin.net\/planetinfo\/\">PlanetInfo<\/a> has blogged this yet&#8230;come on y&#8217;all, look alive! \ud83d\ude09  I&#8217;ll just blog the part of it that I found interesting, and I&#8217;ll depend on the rest of you to fill in  blanks as you see fit.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informatics.indiana.edu\/research\/profiles\/msiegel.asp\">Marty<\/a>&#8216;s party was initially to be of the regular ol&#8217; holiday variety, until he came upon the insight that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informatics.indiana.edu\/people\/profiles.asp?u=nquaglia\">Nick<\/a>, in his 32 years of life, has never had a birthday party.  Of course, this meant that a surprise party had to be thrown.  A team of us went to lunch one day at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/local?hl=en&amp;hs=eRT&amp;lr=&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;q=roots&amp;near=47408&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=locald&amp;radius=0.0&amp;latlng=39183175,-86505836,3733103016470701346\">Roots<\/a> and made some plans.  The main idea was that we&#8217;d be having a regular birthday party when, all of a sudden, we&#8217;d break into stories about how we remember actually being at Nick&#8217;s birthday party each year, proving that he was lying about never having a party thrown for him.  As each person told their story, they were to give Nick a memento to help him remember the event.  Of course, none of the stories were to be true&#8230;half the fun is in the fabrication.<\/p>\n<p>It went off without a hitch.  Simply brilliant.  From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informatics.indiana.edu\/people\/profiles.asp?u=jrbeach\">Jesse<\/a>&#8216;s story of Nick&#8217;s first birthday&#8230;featuring brownies served in a diaper&#8230;straight through to the end, I thought it was amazing.  <\/p>\n<p>Well done everyone.  All the fabricated stories were quite entertaining&#8230;creative and funny people you all are.  I&#8217;m glad we could all come together and do that for our friend.  Happy Birthday, Nick.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, that was the second surprise birthday party I attended of the day.  Earlier we surprised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamryanonline.net\/\">Will<\/a> for his upcoming birthday.  Also a lot of fun.  Happy Birthday to you as well, Will. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe nobody on PlanetInfo has blogged this yet&#8230;come on y&#8217;all, look alive! \ud83d\ude09 I&#8217;ll just blog the part of it that I found interesting, and I&#8217;ll depend on the rest of you to fill in blanks as you see fit. So Marty&#8216;s party was initially to be of the regular ol&#8217; holiday variety, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josh.ev9.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}