{"id":48447,"date":"2026-10-07T07:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=48447"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:41:05","slug":"another-halloween-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/10\/07\/another-halloween-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Halloween Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"48448\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2026\/10\/07\/another-halloween-birthday\/10-07-2026\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10-07-2026.jpg?fit=800%2C572&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,572\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;title&quot;:&quot;10-07-2026&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"10-07-2026\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10-07-2026.jpg?fit=640%2C458&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48448\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10-07-2026.jpg?resize=640%2C458&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10-07-2026.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10-07-2026.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/10-07-2026.jpg?resize=768%2C549&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Being that Tina&#8217;s birthday is in Halloween, I generally celebrate by making her a Halloween themed <em>Drawer Card<\/em>. This year is no exception.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy Birthday, Tina!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What are <em>Drawer Cards<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>In the event of birthdays, anniversaries and a few other holidays, Tina and I exchange cards we make for one another. It certainly saves on the clutter and we end up with something truly unique rather than something store bought that will be forgotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being that Tina&#8217;s birthday is in Halloween, I generally celebrate by making her a Halloween themed Drawer Card. This year is no exception. Happy Birthday, Tina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48448,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[58,390,5626,3347,724],"class_list":["post-48447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drawer-cards","tag-birthday","tag-cat","tag-drawer-card","tag-tina","tag-vampire"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-cBp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24464,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-2018-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":48447,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday, Tina! 2018 Edition","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Being that Tina's birthday comes in October, I usually get a jump on Halloween by giving her card the theme of the season. 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Happy birthday, Tina!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-7-2011.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-7-2011.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/10-7-2011.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1680,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina\/","url_meta":{"origin":48447,"position":2},"title":"Happy Birthday, Tina!","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I usually do a Halloween theme for Tina's card being that she was born in October. This year, I was a little stuck for an idea so I perused my iPhoto library looking for an idea: I picked a few unlikely photos and voila:","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/10-7-10-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":43893,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":48447,"position":3},"title":"Happy Birthday, Tina!","author":"Joe","date":"October 7, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Being that it is October I am once again leaning into a Halloween theme for Tina's birthday card. 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