{"id":412,"date":"2008-04-07T21:35:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T02:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/33rd-birthday-party-casino-style.html"},"modified":"2008-04-07T22:19:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T03:19:53","slug":"33rd-birthday-party-casino-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/life\/33rd-birthday-party-casino-style.html","title":{"rendered":"33rd Birthday Party Casino Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tricia put on a great party for me the other night for my birthday, and I&#8217;m very thankful. It&#8217;s not very often that I get to hang out with 22 people who hold me in as high esteem as free booze and appetizers. We had a good old time with 2 Hold &#8216;Em poker tables and a craps table too. We passed out 50 chips at 8:00 and counted at 10:30pm giving people plenty of time to hit it big or go bust. The top 3 counts were 387, 338 and 226. Congratulations to the 3 winners who are not related <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/National_Lampoon's_Vegas_Vacation\">Mr. Papagiorgio<\/a>. For anyone not remembering <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vegas_Vacation\">National Lampoon&#8217;s Vegas Vacation<\/a>, Rusty pretended to be a high-roller by that name and promptly won enough for a Lambourghini.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kris_craps.jpg' title='Kris runs the craps table'><img src='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kris_craps.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Kris runs the craps table' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Kris runs the craps table<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/dad_poker.jpg' title='Dad Runs the Poker Table'><img src='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/dad_poker.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Dad Runs the Poker Table' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Dad explains the finer points of poker while losing his stack to the ladies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/poker3.jpg' title='Poker in the Living Room'><img src='http:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/poker3.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Poker in the Living Room' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Tensions mount at the living room poker table as Christine builds her dynasty<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All the fun took place 3 days after my real birth date (April 2nd) where my kids <a href=\"http:\/\/rzepkowski.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/happy-birthday-kris.html\">got me a professional waffle maker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tricia put on a great party for me the other night for my birthday, and I&#8217;m very thankful. It&#8217;s not very often that I get to hang out with 22 people who hold me in as high esteem as free booze and appetizers. We had a good old time with 2 Hold &#8216;Em poker tables [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krisrzepkowski.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}