{"id":242,"date":"2003-07-04T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/word_press\/?p=242"},"modified":"2003-07-04T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-05T05:00:00","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/070403a.jpg',300,400)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/070403a.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=216 border=\"1\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/070403b.jpg',300,400)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/070403b.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=216 border=\"1\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"javascript:fotopopup('http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/070403c.jpg',300,400)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chasethelight.com\/images\/070403c.jpg\" class=alignleft WIDTH=216 border=\"1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n<p>People have short term memories. Every year I hear the same complaint. &#8220;We can&#8217;t see the fireworks because of the smoke. It wasn&#8217;t this bad last year.&#8221; Um, yes it was. And the year before that, and the year before that. Personally I think it makes the fireworks look cooler. All this over a 227 year old piece of paper? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibit_hall\/charters_of_freedom\/images\/us_declaration_preview.jpg\" target=_blank>LINK<\/a>] Ya can&#8217;t even read the thing! The short version&#8230; &#8220;We the people don&#8217;t like your tea, having a Queen, bangers and mash, that you put &#8220;u&#8221; in words like colour, that whole lack of religious freedom thing, and lawyers who wear wigs. We&#8217;re even going rename football to soccer, and every year we will shoot red rockets that glare into the sky just so you don&#8217;t forget. Oh and that whole heavy duty tax thing which brings us back to your crappy tea. Signed, John Hancock and a bunch of other early people who write small.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have short term memories. Every year I hear the same complaint. &#8220;We can&#8217;t see the fireworks because of the smoke. It wasn&#8217;t this bad last year.&#8221; Um, yes it was. And the year before that, and the year before that. Personally I think it makes the fireworks look cooler. All this over a 227 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-life","category-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MOCs-3U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasethelight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}