{"id":3625,"date":"2023-06-09T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2023-06-09T22:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T18:42:42","slug":"its-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/archives\/3625","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s my birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3626\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_5831_jpg-850x1133.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Surrounded by loved ones I celebrated my 46th birthday. As I blew out the candles on my cake, a moment of reflection crossed my face, a testament to the accomplishments and challenges I had overcome. I had my first expatriate life in Birmingham many years ago, and now I&#8217;ve been expatriated in Dubai for two years now. I found that there are many common factors between the two experiences, except that I noted that there is something missing, which is blogging. So on my birthday, I decided to get back to blogging. In terms of similarities in my experiences with alienation, I&#8217;m going to talk about this in another article. It&#8217;s good to be back! :&#8217;)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/956ac8d9-5db3-49ae-9b18-e482bdf7cace.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3627\" width=\"414\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/956ac8d9-5db3-49ae-9b18-e482bdf7cace.jpg 828w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/956ac8d9-5db3-49ae-9b18-e482bdf7cace-532x600.jpg 532w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/956ac8d9-5db3-49ae-9b18-e482bdf7cace-768x865.jpg 768w, https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/956ac8d9-5db3-49ae-9b18-e482bdf7cace-300x338.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This happened when my family was singing Happy Birthday and my daughter caught it on camera. \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\">Surrounded by loved ones I celebrated my 46th birthday. As I blew out the candles on my cake, a moment of reflection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[319,55,316,13,320],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-aging-beautifully","tag-birthday","tag-cake","tag-family","tag-life-in-dubai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3628,"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/3628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athoob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}