{"id":2166,"date":"2007-05-19T10:51:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/fifty-two\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T16:56:09","slug":"fifty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/fifty-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-two"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Today I am 52 years old. There&#8217;s something odd about that even number. There are fifty two weeks in a year and fifty two cards in a deck (without the jokers). There are fifty two states, counting DC and Israel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/photos\/dsc01788b.jpg\" alt=\"A Shadow of My Former Self\" title=\"A Shadow of My Former Self\" style=\"float: right\" \/>On the day I was born in the rainy state of Hawai&#8217;i, the dry state of New Mexico experienced its greatest rainfall ever recorded (11.28 inches in 24 hours at Lake Maloya). That&#8217;s a good rain, even by Hawai&#8217;ian standards.<\/p>\n<p>At sunset tonight, Venus sidles up to the moon, not quite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christinelavin.com\/00031708vktm.html\">close enough for a kiss (&#8220;Not &#8217;till 2031&#8221;)<\/a>, but less than 1 degree apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Free Will Astrology : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewillastrology.com\/horoscopes\/taurus.html\">Taurus Horoscope<\/a> (April 20-May 20)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about time you got the chance to be knocked on your ass by a flood of positive surprises and good feelings. I hope you&#8217;re trusting enough to go with the tidal flow, even if it does temporarily render you a bit woozy. Naturally you&#8217;d like to know if this giddy surrender will land you in trouble. Is there any chance that you&#8217;ll have to endure some karmic adjustment at a later date because of the fun you&#8217;re having now? Here&#8217;s my prediction: absolutely not. If anything, your enthusiastic cooperation with the free-form dazzle will shield you from any negative repercussions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>How did  the astrologer know about my concern for the righting of the karmic scale. I can&#8217;t promise surrender, but I will cooperate. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To paraphrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sing365.com\/music\/Lyric.nsf\/Birthday-lyrics-The-Beatles\/1A263ECC19F362A048256BC2002104F6\">the Beatles<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>You say it&#8217;s your birthday<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s my birthday too&#8211;yeah<br \/>\nThey say it&#8217;s your birthday<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re gonna have a good time<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s my birthday<br \/>\nHappy birthday to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am 52 years old. There&#8217;s something odd about that even number. There are fifty two weeks in a year and fifty two cards in a deck (without the jokers). There are fifty two states, counting DC and Israel. On the day I was born in the rainy state of Hawai&#8217;i, the dry state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/fifty-two\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fifty-two<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}