{"id":88,"date":"2026-02-09T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/?p=88"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T20:47:11","slug":"how-i-celebrated-my-birthday-at-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/2026\/02\/09\/how-i-celebrated-my-birthday-at-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Celebrated My Birthday at Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy start of the week to everyone!<\/p>\n

I wanted to start this week and month with some happy and exciting news. It was just my birthday! Now 19, I thought it would be fun to share some of the things that I got up to here in Iowa.<\/p>\n

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  1. Went to PetLand to pet puppies! Would 100% recommend this if you haven’t been already. It’s free, everyone is really welcoming, and the dogs are adorable.<\/li>\n
  2. Got Dunkin! Everyone deserves a special treat on their birthday. I would highly recommend the Valentine’s Day menu.<\/li>\n
  3. Spent time with friends \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
  4. Called my parents!! It’s hard being away from home, especially on birthdays, but this helped me feel a lot closer to them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Happy birthday to all my Aquarius babies out there,<\/p>\n

    Sending lots of love and birthday candles.<\/p>\n

    Sophia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy start of the week to everyone! I wanted to start this week and month with some happy and exciting news. It was just my birthday! Now 19, I thought it would be fun to share some of the things that I got up to here in Iowa. Went to PetLand to pet puppies! Would 100% recommend this if you haven’t been already. It’s free, everyone is really welcoming, and the dogs are adorable. Got …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":170,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/170"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/sophia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}