{"id":1297,"date":"2019-12-04T17:51:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2019-12-09T01:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T06:47:51","slug":"37th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/37th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"37th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I turned thirty seven this week. Crystal baked my traditional birthday cake &#8211; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Jewish Apple Cake (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewish_apple_cake\" target=\"_blank\">Jewish Apple Cake<\/a> &#8211; to celebrate and even found a place that sells hoagies in Phnom Penh. The Jewish Apple Cake was wonderful and the staff were quite impressed by Crystal&#8217;s baking skills!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122205-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122205-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122205-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122205-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122205-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122205-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122205-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During my last term it was next to impossible to find apples (or hoagies) so that&#8217;s a sign of how Phnom Penh has changed over the last ten years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_165018-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1300\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_165018-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=1300\" 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Especially knowing that the next day we were heading to Prey Veng province on field visits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned thirty seven this week. Crystal baked my traditional birthday cake &#8211; Jewish Apple Cake &#8211; to celebrate and even found a place that sells hoagies in Phnom Penh. The Jewish Apple Cake was wonderful and the staff were quite impressed by Crystal&#8217;s baking skills! During my last term it was next to impossible&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/37th-birthday\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[5],"tags":[70,108],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-life-in-cambodia","tag-birthday","tag-food","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191204_122040-1-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-kV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}