{"id":2301,"date":"2020-02-29T22:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T20:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:35:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T17:35:34","slug":"29-februarie-la-multi-ani-si-ne-auzim-in-4-ani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/2020\/02\/29-februarie-la-multi-ani-si-ne-auzim-in-4-ani\/","title":{"rendered":"February 29 \u2013 Happy birthday and&#8230; talk to you in 4 years?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I kept thinking today about the people born on February\n29th. How do they feel 3 years out of 4, when their birthday is&#8230; on February\n28 or on March 1? It&#8217;s hard, man. At least it would be hard for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, it&#8217;s great to be special, different from\nus, the many, who can put our finger in the calendar on our day, then waiting\nfor midnight to start enjoying every minute of our birthday. Or complain about\nthe back pain&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not know how many children were born today, but I would give the parents a tip: to run to buy all the newspapers published today, February 29th. Why? Not only because the next newspapers with the date February 29 will come out after another four years (if they still have the print version then), but because, when the child turns 18 or even when&#8230; he retires, a newspaper from the special day when he was born will be one of the greatest gifts ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190217-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190217-2-750x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190217-2-750x1024.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190217-2-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190217-2-768x1048.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190217-2.jpg 879w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I discovered this business with the anniversary newspapers\nabsolutely by chance. I always like to look for unique gifts and this is one\nthat I have always been successful with: to give a 30, 40, 50 or even 80 year\nold person an original newspaper, printed in the exact day when he was born,\nseemed to me a gift that is out of common.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, don&#8217;t think about Romanian newspapers. I would be\nshocked to find out that there is such an archive. I refer to the English\nnewspapers, and especially to the famous Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I made the people who had this idea rich J)), and I go on buying from them&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first person I wanted to surprise with such a gift was\u2026 me&#8230; hihi. And, if I bought the Times for my friends, my relatives, my colleagues, greedily, for myself I took all three of them, that I found in the archives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190450-1-840x1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190450-1-840x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2310\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/2020\/02\/29-februarie-la-multi-ani-si-ne-auzim-in-4-ani\/20200229_190450-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-2310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190450-1-840x1024.jpg 840w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190450-1-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190450-1-768x937.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190450-1.jpg 984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190248-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190248-1-732x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"2311\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190248-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/2020\/02\/29-februarie-la-multi-ani-si-ne-auzim-in-4-ani\/20200229_190248-1\/\" class=\"wp-image-2311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190248-1-732x1024.jpg 732w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190248-1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190248-1-768x1074.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20200229_190248-1.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I browsed them, to see what happened on the day I was born,\nthen I beautifully framed them all and hung them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going back to February 29 and today&#8217;s birthdays, I tell them that their birthday should, in fact, be a special day for everyone! Once every 4 years we have an extra day in our life. This is a great thing, right? I tried to make it special. How about you?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I kept thinking today about the people born on February 29th. How do they feel 3 years out of 4, when their birthday is&#8230; on February 28 or on March 1? It&#8217;s hard, man. At least it would be hard for me. On the other hand, it&#8217;s great to be special, different from us, the many, who can put our finger in the calendar on our day, then waiting for midnight to start enjoying every minute of our birthday. Or complain about the back pain&#8230; I do not know how many children were born today, but I would give the parents a tip: to run to buy all the newspapers published today, February 29th. Why? Not only because the next newspapers with the date February 29 will come out after another four years (if they still have the print version then), but because, when the child turns 18 or even when&#8230; he retires, a newspaper from the special day when he was born will be one of the greatest gifts ever! I discovered this business with the anniversary newspapers absolutely by chance. I always like to look for unique gifts and this is one that I have always been successful with: to give a 30, 40, 50 or even 80 year old person an original newspaper, printed in the exact day when he was born, seemed to me a gift that is out of common. No, don&#8217;t think about Romanian newspapers. I would be shocked to find out that there is such an archive. I refer to the English newspapers, and especially to the famous Times. I made the people who had this idea rich J)), and I go on buying from them&#8230; The first person I wanted to surprise with such a gift was\u2026 me&#8230; hihi. And, if I bought the Times for my friends, my relatives, my colleagues, greedily, for myself I took all three of them, that I found in the archives! I browsed them, to see what happened on the day I was born, then I beautifully framed them all and hung them. Going back to February 29 and today&#8217;s birthdays, I tell them that their birthday should, in fact, be a special day for everyone! Once every 4 years we have an extra day in our life. This is a great thing, right? I tried to make it special. How about you?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[554,563,556,562,565,564,555,557],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viata-asa-cum-e","tag-29-februarie","tag-29-of-february","tag-aniversare","tag-birthday","tag-birthday-newspaper","tag-newspapers","tag-zi-de-nastere","tag-ziare","main-post"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ro","en"],"languages":{"ro":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danamladin.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}