{"id":742,"date":"2025-03-30T08:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T12:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/?p=742"},"modified":"2025-03-30T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T19:05:18","slug":"happy-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/30\/happy-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/My-Movie-SD-480p-1.mov\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sun rising in partial eclipse at Kingston Point, March 29, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To me. Birthday present #1 was a sun rising in <a href=\"https:\/\/eclipsewise.com\/solar\/SEprime\/2001-2100\/SE2025Mar29Pprime.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partial eclipse<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t catch the eclipse part, but I got the sunrise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" data-id=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.18.11-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"Graves of Amos and Helen Newcombe\" class=\"wp-image-753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.18.11-copy-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.18.11-copy-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.18.11-copy-1-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" data-id=\"754\" src=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.47.55-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.47.55-copy-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.47.55-copy-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-08.47.55-copy-1-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then on to communing with the ancestors. On the left my mother, who died on March 26, 2003. On the right, my great-great-grandmother Catharine Jones Newcomb, who died on March 29, 1844.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-09.49.34.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-09.49.34.jpg 934w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-09.49.34-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-09.49.34-150x48.jpg 150w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-09.49.34-768x247.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"755\" src=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.39.38.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.39.38.jpg 400w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.39.38-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.39.38-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"756\" src=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.46.26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.46.26.jpg 580w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.46.26-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-03-29-10.46.26-150x78.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then to commune with favorite bodies of water: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Notch_Lake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Notch Lake<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashokan_Reservoir\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ashokan_Reservoir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ashokan Reservoir<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, dinner with the family and a lesson in violin-playing basics from my granddaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me. Birthday present #1 was a sun rising in partial eclipse. I didn&#8217;t catch the eclipse part, but I got the sunrise. Then on to communing with the ancestors. On the left my mother, who died on March 26, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/30\/happy-birthday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,429],"tags":[459,367,457,458],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-photoblog","tag-ashokan-reservoir","tag-cemetery","tag-hudson-river","tag-notch_lake"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amosnewcombe.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}