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Tomorrow, February the 9th I will be 80!\u00a0 My wife and family conspired to have a surprise birthday party for me yesterday.\u00a0 I knew my family was coming in to celebrate Cade’s, my grandson’s, birthday so it was a complete surprise to me!\u00a0 Family came in from far and wide to help in the celebration!\u00a0 I should have suspected something when Sherelene started moving in extra card tables and chairs, but I never dreamed they were doing it for me!\u00a0 I have to admit that is was a wonderful out pouring out of love and I appreciate it, but don’t deserve such wonderful attention!\u00a0 My brother’s wife Terri, a incredible photographer herself, was the hit of the party with cookies she created, baked and shared with the group!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI at it’s finest!\u00a0 Thank to all the wonderful family and friends that have reached out to celebrate this occasion!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow, February the 9th I will be 80!\u00a0 My wife and family conspired to have a surprise birthday party for me yesterday.\u00a0 I knew my family was coming in to celebrate Cade’s, my grandson’s, birthday so it was a complete surprise to me!\u00a0 Family came in from far and wide to help in the […]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28500,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28493\/revisions\/28500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-08-at-12.00.21-PM-960x1589.png\")
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