{"id":1131,"date":"2014-04-19T23:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T06:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2014-04-19T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-20T06:55:38","slug":"happy-birthday-geoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2014\/04\/19\/happy-birthday-geoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday Geoff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated Geoff&#8217;s 70th birthday tonight.<\/p>\n<p>We actually missed the real deal back in February. We just couldn&#8217;t make it back to the UK, and ended up missing two big milestones (Dan turned 30 as well). Instead, we&#8217;ve brought\u00c2\u00a0Wendy and Geoff up to Bodega Bay (their favorite), and found a cool house (with a hot tub) to hang out.<\/p>\n<p>We spent today at Goat Rock State Park. It was epically windy. But man was it fun. Folks have built a bunch of lean-tos, and other structures. We hid behind a dune and had an awesome picnic. It was a really great day with the family, Wendy, and Geoff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Then we cooked an awesome Turkish dinner &#8211; kofte, shepherd&#8217;s salad, yogurt, and then had some dessert. It&#8217;s a great weekend to celebrate a great guy.<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Geoff.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1131-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Geoffs-birthday.m4v?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Geoffs-birthday.m4v\">http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Geoffs-birthday.m4v<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated Geoff&#8217;s 70th birthday tonight. We actually missed the real deal back in February. We just couldn&#8217;t make it back to the UK, and ended up missing two big milestones (Dan turned 30 as well). Instead, we&#8217;ve brought\u00c2\u00a0Wendy and Geoff up to Bodega Bay (their favorite), and found a cool house (with a hot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-if","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":462,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2011\/07\/26\/life-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1131,"position":0},"title":"Life update","date":"July 26, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Well it's slowed down here a lot, and so it became clear that an update was in order. What has life brought me in July? 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