{"id":573881753,"date":"2011-07-02T03:58:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573881753"},"modified":"2011-07-02T04:02:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T09:02:10","slug":"fourth-on-the-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2011\/07\/02\/fourth-on-the-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth on the First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opelikadailynews.com\/\/2011\/06\/opelika-celebrates-4th-on-the-1st\/\">Jerry Katz<\/a> suggested Opelika&#8217;s annual &#8220;Freedom Celebration&#8221; as a nice way to spend Friday evening. Head out to Opelika High School and extend the Fourth of July holiday a bit. It is an ephemeral thing, here one minute, bright and then falling to the ground and forgotten, except for the inevitable litter. So why not make it a several day celebration? A birth of a nation should merit that. <\/p>\n<p>So we go watch kids play in the inflatables, blow bubbles, get balloon animals, listen to some music and generally have a nice quiet evening.<\/p>\n<p>And then the organizers laughed at the dry conditions left by the drought and threw 22 minutes of gunpowder and charged explosives into the air. <\/p>\n<p>The Fourth is a good holiday for traditions. We have ours. What are yours? What traditions will be started this year? Maybe a few in this video, which establishes the setting for the event, shows some of the atmosphere and the fireworks finale.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/htNMgsXZbAA.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#htNMgsXZbAA\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>We had great seats. Everyone had great seats. Really nice time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Katz suggested Opelika&#8217;s annual &#8220;Freedom Celebration&#8221; as a nice way to spend Friday evening. Head out to Opelika High School and extend the Fourth of July holiday a bit. It is an ephemeral thing, here one minute, bright and then falling to the ground and forgotten, except for the inevitable litter. So why not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573881753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-iphone","category-video","category-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573881753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573881755,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573881753\/revisions\/573881755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573881753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573881753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573881753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}