{"id":363,"date":"2007-09-19T09:59:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T16:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=363"},"modified":"2007-09-19T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T16:59:19","slug":"born-a-pirate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Born a pirate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you know, if you&#8217;re a regular reader of this blog, that today is my birthday.\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What you may not know, however, is that it&#8217;s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talklikeapirate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Talk Like a Pirate Day<\/a> (I am not making this up).\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 How ironic that my grog-swilling twin brother and I should be born to such a lexical legacy!\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In light of this, I expect all subsequent birthday greetings to be appropriately piratey.\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In case your sword or your wit is feeling dull, here are a few sample birthday greetings:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ahoy, birthday boy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s hoping your treasure chest is loaded with booty!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that a parrot on your shoulder, or is that Liam?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re all much more clever than I, and have probably swilled less grog this morning.\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free to add your own (piratey!) birthday greetings in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you know, if you&#8217;re a regular reader of this blog, that today is my birthday.\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What you may not know, however, is that it&#8217;s also International Talk Like a Pirate Day (I am not making this up).\u00c3\u0192\u00e2\u20ac\u0161\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 How ironic that my grog-swilling twin brother and I should be born to such a lexical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/?p=363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Born a pirate!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news","category-humor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdZlL-5R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewandlisa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}