{"id":92264,"date":"2024-01-28T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T04:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92264"},"modified":"2024-01-28T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T04:49:13","slug":"happy-birthday-mayor-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/01\/28\/happy-birthday-mayor-pete\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Mayor Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, two unlikely people showed off their vocal talents.&nbsp; The first instance happened on January 19<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; The scene was the <em>US Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting <\/em>at the <em>White House <\/em>\u2013 which we all somehow missed.&nbsp; Someone in attendance was Transportation Secretary <strong>Pete Buttigieg<\/strong>, who will forever be known as <strong><em>Mayor Pete<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Not a bad way to be remembered, until one considers being a former mayor with a national platform didn\u2019t work out so well for <strong>Rudy Giuliani<\/strong>!&nbsp; Be that as it may, <strong>President Biden <\/strong>noted the former mayor\u2019s presence when addressing the crowd.&nbsp; Someone obviously told him that it was Buttigieg\u2019s birthday (and while it may not look difficult, try and say \u201cButtigieg\u2019s birthday\u201d three times fast).&nbsp; \u201cPete turned 30 today,\u201d said Biden \u2013 obviously using hyperbole in accentuating Pete\u2019s youthful appearance.&nbsp; \u201cMy wife, she has a tradition in her family \u2013 and on everybody\u2019s birthday, you\u2019ve got to sing \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019.\u201d&nbsp; What a curious tradition.&nbsp; And, how strange that my family does the same thing as <strong>Dr. Jill<\/strong>\u2019s.&nbsp; It\u2019s almost eerie.&nbsp; \u201cSo,\u201d continued Joe, \u201cstand up and let\u2019s sing \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019.\u201d&nbsp; And then the president led a somewhat tuneless sing-along.&nbsp; Happy Birthday, Mayor Pete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, two unlikely people showed off their vocal talents.&nbsp; The first instance happened on January 19th.&nbsp; The scene was the US Conference of Mayors Winter Meeting at the White House \u2013 which we all somehow missed.&nbsp; Someone in attendance was Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who will forever be known as Mayor Pete.&nbsp; Not a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92265,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92264\/revisions\/92265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}