{"id":339,"date":"2009-03-21T00:59:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T00:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-03-21T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:49:39","slug":"the-big-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/the-big-45\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big 45&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as of today, I have now outlived Elvis by three years. And so far so good, I think&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that exasperates me about this birthday is the fact that I&#8217;ve been on Andiamo now for more than five years. In some ways, it actually seems LONGER. I keep telling myself that there is no way I could have fit all that has happened with me and Andiamo in just five years.\u00a0 But then again, on some levels, it feels like just yesterday. How does that happen?<\/p>\n<p>I look back at previous birthdays during my Andiamo tenure with smiles and fond memories, especially the ones spent on Utila. I find myself feeling incredibly lucky to have been among great friends and good times each and every birthday since leaving Miami in 2004. Make no mistake. It&#8217;s been a rough and crazy ride so far, filled with incredible moments of happiness, thrill, adventure, and yes, even sadness and loss. Through it all I can honestly say that there is no place I&#8217;d rather be right now, than right where I am, doing what I&#8217;m doing. How could I ask for more than that?<\/p>\n<p>And yes, people still guess my age at around 35&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as of today, I have now outlived Elvis by three years. And so far so good, I think&#8230; \ud83d\ude09 The only thing that exasperates me about this birthday is the fact that I&#8217;ve been on Andiamo now for more than five years. In some ways, it actually seems LONGER. I keep telling myself that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tonys-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}