{"id":3069,"date":"2010-03-01T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T04:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2010-03-01T02:31:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T00:31:52","slug":"my-baby-turns-1-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/my-baby-turns-1-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"My baby turns 1 year old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3071\" title=\"1-birthday\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/1-birthday1.jpg\" alt=\"My blog turns 1 year old today!\" width=\"543\" height=\"970\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3073\" title=\"2-amalgam-1-year-old\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2-amalgam-1-year-old.jpg\" alt=\"Today, we celebrate Amalgam's 1st birthday!\" width=\"543\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2-amalgam-1-year-old.jpg 543w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/2-amalgam-1-year-old-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3074\" title=\"3-my-baby-is-1-year-old\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3-my-baby-is-1-year-old.jpg\" alt=\"Candle blowing\" width=\"543\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3-my-baby-is-1-year-old.jpg 543w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/3-my-baby-is-1-year-old-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3075\" title=\"4-thank-you-note\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/4-thank-you-note.jpg\" alt=\"On this special day, I 'd like to thank every single person who supported, commented, liked, visited, hated... participated to making this blog what it is today. I could not have done it without you!  I love you all my darlings!\" width=\"543\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/4-thank-you-note.jpg 543w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/4-thank-you-note-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3076\" title=\"5-proposition\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/5-proposition.jpg\" alt=\"To thank you for all your love, I have a  proposition for you: I am going to give away  3 Amalgam books, and I am going to add  3 posts to the blog today (including this one).  The 1st commenter (located in Leb) on each of the posts will get a signed copy of the book!\" width=\"543\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/5-proposition.jpg 543w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/5-proposition-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s go, comment away! \ud83d\ude09 The comment has to be &#8220;Happy Birhday!&#8221; \u00a0So if you don&#8217;t want the book, just comment something else :p<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">[If you already have the book and don&#8217;t need another copy, please give a chance to others \ud83d\ude1b \u00a0&amp; sorry about limiting it to Leb, but it&#8217;s a bit complicated to send the book across the planet at this time]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would also like to take this chance to give some&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">BLOG FACTS &amp; STATS!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Let&#8217;s go back to the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/2009\/02\/10\/my-tranquilizer\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>VERY FIRST POST<\/strong><\/a><strong> I did on this blog! <\/strong>I called it &#8220;my tranquilizer&#8221; back then, and today I can say that this is exactly what this blog has been to me. I hope you all find your own &#8220;tranquilizers&#8221; and that next year will only be as good as the 1st one!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>236: <\/strong>Is the number of posts on this blog since day 1!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>2247: <\/strong>Is the number of comments you guys made on all the posts!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u2022 <strong>200,000+:<\/strong> Is the number of visits during the blog&#8217;s 1st year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let&#8217;s end it with Frank Sinatra singing &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; just for us! \ud83d\ude00<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Happy-Birthday-To-You.mp3\">Happy Birthday To You<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>N.B: Two other posts will follow today, so stay tuned if you want to get those books! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">P.S: This birthday was due on February 10th, but I have been over-super-busy to prepare all this, so let&#8217;s settle for March 1st as official blog birthday!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, let&#8217;s go, comment away! \ud83d\ude09 The comment has to be &#8220;Happy Birhday!&#8221; \u00a0So if you don&#8217;t want the book, just comment something else :p [If you already have the book and don&#8217;t need another copy, please give a chance to others \ud83d\ude1b \u00a0&amp; sorry about limiting it to Leb, but it&#8217;s a bit complicated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1432,143,163,1435,1436,1434,1433,1437,1438],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-stories","tag-1-year-old","tag-birthday","tag-book","tag-cake","tag-candle","tag-gift","tag-giveaway","tag-oscar","tag-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5402,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/5402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}