{"id":168875,"date":"2025-04-25T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=168875"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T00:00:53","slug":"weekend-open-thread-546","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168875","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/X-Twitter-Alma-Hanna-@hannanative-Today-is-my-50th-birthday-no-husband-no-kids-20250314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-168877\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/X-Twitter-Alma-Hanna-@hannanative-Today-is-my-50th-birthday-no-husband-no-kids-20250314-170x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/X-Twitter-Alma-Hanna-@hannanative-Today-is-my-50th-birthday-no-husband-no-kids-20250314-170x300.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/X-Twitter-Alma-Hanna-@hannanative-Today-is-my-50th-birthday-no-husband-no-kids-20250314-189x333.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/X-Twitter-Alma-Hanna-@hannanative-Today-is-my-50th-birthday-no-husband-no-kids-20250314.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The things that people would do to get points and social media engagement. A recent &#8220;fad&#8221; on X involves a woman lamenting the fact that she just turned 50 and is celebrating alone. Other ages are used, but the statements are nearly identical. A whole bunch of people jump on the thread and &#8220;simp&#8221; for the person who &#8220;lamented&#8221; being alone. A check of this one account&#8217;s posting history shows that this was not the first time they &#8220;celebrated a birthday&#8221; alone this year. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things that people would do to get points and social media engagement. A recent &#8220;fad&#8221; &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=168875\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}