{"id":12606,"date":"2013-12-18T23:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T23:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/12\/18\/what-they-dont-understand-about-birthdays-and\/"},"modified":"2013-12-18T23:23:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T23:23:36","slug":"what-they-dont-understand-about-birthdays-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/12\/18\/what-they-dont-understand-about-birthdays-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What they don\u2019t understand about birthdays and what they never tell<br \/>\nyou is that when you\u2019re eleven, you\u2019re also ten, and nine, and eight, and<br \/>\nseven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you<br \/>\nwake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don\u2019t.<br \/>\nYou open your eyes and everything\u2019s just like yesterday, only it\u2019s today. And<br \/>\nyou don\u2019t feel eleven at all. You feel like you\u2019re still ten. And you are \u2014<br \/>\nunderneath the year that makes you eleven.   <\/p>\n<p>Like some days you might say something stupid, and that\u2019s the part of<br \/>\nyou that\u2019s still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your<br \/>\nmama\u2019s lap because you\u2019re scared, and that\u2019s the part of you that\u2019s five.<br \/>\nAnd maybe one day when you\u2019re all grown up maybe you will need to cry like<br \/>\nif you\u2019re three, and that\u2019s okay. That\u2019s what I tell Mama when she\u2019s sad and<br \/>\nneeds to cry. Maybe she\u2019s feeling three.   <\/p>\n<p>Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings<br \/>\ninside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the<br \/>\nother, each year inside the next one. That\u2019s how being eleven years old is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Sandra Cisneros (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/zatanna.co.vu\/\">commanderspock<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What they don\u2019t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you\u2019re eleven, you\u2019re also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don\u2019t. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2013\/12\/18\/what-they-dont-understand-about-birthdays-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3020,4257],"class_list":["post-12606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-good","tag-yes-perfect","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}