{"id":513679,"date":"2026-04-05T04:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513679\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:55:10","slug":"today-i-am-ten-or-the-miracle-of-scalziyears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513679\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I Am Ten, or, the Miracle of ScalziYears"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\tPosted on\t\t\tApril 4, 2026<\/a>
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\n\t\t\tPosted by\t\t\tJohn Scalzi<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0
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And you say to yourself, what? Scalzi, you are not ten years old today! You are just barely a month away from being 57! The only juvenile you are is juvenile elderly! Stop being a faker, you faker!<\/p>\n

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To which I respond: Yes, I am fifty-six and eleven(ish) months old\u2026 on Earth. But as you know, I have a minor planet named after me<\/a>, and its orbital period is just a shade under 5.7 earth years long. If you were to position 52692 Johnscalzi (1998 FO8) on the day of my birth, today is the day it would have made its tenth complete orbit since then. Thus, ten ScalziYears. Today, I am ten ScalziYears old. <\/p>\n

How will I celebrate such a momentous occasion? As it happens I have a gathering of friends at the church today. It\u2019s for something else entirely but I might bring a cake anyway. And otherwise, I\u2019m taking it easy. It\u2019s nice that this time around it slots in just between Good Friday and Easter. Easter Saturday always feels a little left out of the holiday swing of things, I\u2019m glad this year to give something to do. <\/p>\n

My next ScalziYear birthday will be December 12, 2031, so you have lots of time to prepare. Get ready!<\/p>\n

\u2014 JS<\/p>\n

PS: that coin with my asteroids orbit on it was given to me by a fan at the San Antonio Pop Madness convention (whose name escapse me at the moment but they can certainly announce themselves in the comments), and it was super-cool to get it. The other side of the coin is just as awesome:<\/p>\n

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I have the best fans, honestly.<\/p>\n

Like this:<\/p>\n

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\t\t\u2190 A Kitten\u2019s First Good Friday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on April 4, 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Posted by John Scalzi \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 And you say to yourself, what?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}