{"id":67,"date":"2004-02-06T19:20:44","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/06\/still_not_30.html"},"modified":"2004-02-06T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T02:20:44","slug":"still_not_30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/06\/still_not_30.html","title":{"rendered":"Still not 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I celebrate the last birthday of the first part of the rest of my life, I&#8217;d like to honor the curious collection of fellow Aquarians for whom February 6th holds a special meaning.  I&#8217;ve always felt the list was pretty interesting, and I&#8217;ve always been a little embarassed by <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.presidentreagan.info\/\" TITLE=\"Ooh! Dot info!\">Ronald Reagan<\/A>&#8216;s (1911) presence on the list, but he&#8217;s certainly the emeritus member of the group.  Then of course there&#8217;s the favorite news anchor from my youth, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/onair\/bios\/t_brokaw.asp\">Tom Brokaw<\/A> (1940) (though is it me or is <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\">MSNBC<\/A> <I>still<\/I> the ugliest major website around? The design hasn&#8217;t changed in years, and is uniformly unreadable, with bad margins, ignorance of white-space design conventions, and poor font choice).  Prefer sport?  Well, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.baberuth.com\/\">Babe Ruth<\/A> (1895) has got you covered, then.  Need a representative from the film world?  It doesn&#8217;t get much better than <A HREF=\"http:\/\/iihm.imag.fr\/truffaut\/\">Francois Truffaut<\/A> (1932), bad boy of the French New Wave (though if you&#8217;re looking for someone on the other side of the camera, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hollywood.com\/celebs\/detail\/celeb\/194626\">Rip Torn<\/A> (1931) and <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com\/gabor_z\/\">Zsa Zsa Gabor<\/A> (1917) are there for you).  The world of music is a little lacking &#8211; oh wait, though, February 6th is the birthday of this classic supergroup: Mr. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.gnronline.com\/\">W. Axl Rose<\/A> (1962), <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bobmarley.com\">Bob Marley<\/A> (1945), and the real winner, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rickastley.co.uk\/html\/home\/home.htm\">Rick Astley<\/A>.  Together forever is right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I celebrate the last birthday of the first part of the rest of my life, I&#8217;d like to honor the curious collection of fellow Aquarians for whom February 6th holds a special meaning. I&#8217;ve always felt the list was pretty interesting, and I&#8217;ve always been a little embarassed by Ronald Reagan&#8216;s (1911) presence on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}