{"id":450,"date":"2020-09-15T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/w\/?p=450"},"modified":"2020-09-15T11:45:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T16:45:23","slug":"clara-caufield-when-do-birthdays-become-less-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/15\/clara-caufield-when-do-birthdays-become-less-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Caufield: When do birthdays become less important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1461\" data-attachment-id=\"454\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/09\/15\/clara-caufield-when-do-birthdays-become-less-important\/birthday\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/birthday.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1461\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"birthday\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/birthday-300x214.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/birthday-1024x731.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/birthday.jpg\" alt=\"birthday cake\"  class=\"alignnone img-fluid wp-image-454\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=figure-caption>Happy Birthday! Photo: <a href=https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psd\/3149878971\/>Paul Downey<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=h1-responsive>When do birthdays become less important?<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Tuesday, September 15, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=byline>By Clara Caufield<\/div>\r\n<div class=source>Native Sun News Columnist<\/div>\r\n<div class=source-website><a href=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/>nativesunnews.today<\/a><\/div>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nRemember being a kid when birthdays were eagerly anticipated, a golden day, occasion for a party when we got to be the center of attention: Mom or grandma cooking up our favorite treats, even only hot dogs and chips, baking a favorite cake, gaily wrapped presents and secretly even looking to the birthday spanking, giggling while trying to evade pesky brothers, cousins, etc. all determined to give a good swat?<p><\/p>\r\nThat seems to last through high school and then the anticipation birthdays gradually wains becoming \u201cjust another day\u201d.  Yet as we grow into \u201celder\u201d status, it once again becomes an occasion for celebration, the birthday person often wondering how he\/she got so darn old. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n \u201cIf I\u2019d known I\u2019d live this long, I\u2019d have treated myself better,\u201d is a common remark.  One other hand, we can also say \u201cIt\u2019s been one hellava ride and I\u2019m not ready to be turned out to pasture just yet.  Might have a few more goes left in me.\u201d\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nThat\u2019s why I and my gang of fellow oldsters recently threw a birthday party for Tom, the baby of the bunch, now 61.  We put on the dawg for him: barbeque, beverages for every taste and inclination, my special dark chocolate\/cherry torte, complete with candles.  It was trick to get them all lit.\r\nHe got cards and some great gifts, even the gag type.  The greatest gift, of course was our time and the attention lavished upon him \u2013 king for a day.\r\n<p><\/p>\r\nTom is a white guy, but doesn\u2019t really know it, having been born and raised on the Crow reservation, counting many friends and relatives among us. \r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"row nativesunnewstoday\">\r\n                        <DIV class=col-md-3>\r\n                            <A href=\"\/m.asp?url=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n                                <IMG class=\"img-fluid wow fadein\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" itemprop=\"image\">\r\n                            <\/A>\r\n                        <\/DIV>\r\n                        <DIV class=col-md-9>\r\n                            <H4>\r\n                                <A href=\"\/m.asp?url=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS \r\n                                                                TODAY<\/A>\r\n                            <\/H4>\r\n                            <P>Support Native media!<\/P>\r\n                            <P>\r\n\r\n                                                                Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: \r\n                                                                \r\n                                <A href=https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/when-do-birthdays-become-less-important\/>When do birthdays become less important?<\/A>\r\n                            <\/P>\r\n                        <\/DIV>\r\n                    <\/DIV>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<HR><EM>Clara Caufield can be reached at acheyennevoice@gmail.com<\/em><HR>\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember being a kid when birthdays were eagerly anticipated, a golden day, occasion for a party when we got to be the center of attention?","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[160,128,2],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-clara-caufield","tag-elders","tag-native-sun-news-today","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/birthday.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-7g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}