{"id":5512,"date":"2026-07-30T15:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2026-07-30T15:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:07:13","slug":"todays-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/todays-my-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s My Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m busy writing today! Will celebrate with cake tonight! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Come visit me at the Black Books Matter Festival:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">August 1, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">11 AM \u2013 4 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Black Books Matter Festival<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Mahogany Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">121 American Way<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">National Harbor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Oxon Hill, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cecilia-Dowdy-BBMFest-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Cecilia-Dowdy-BBMFest-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5514\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cdnovelist_birthday_cake_with_candles_15f15b1f-61a3-480c-adce-15bb8448e5ac.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cdnovelist_birthday_cake_with_candles_15f15b1f-61a3-480c-adce-15bb8448e5ac.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5513\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m busy writing today! Will celebrate with cake tonight! Come visit me at the Black Books Matter Festival: August 1, 2026 11 AM \u2013 4 PM Black Books Matter Festival Mahogany Books 121 American Way National Harbor Oxon Hill, MD<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-1qU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}