{"id":1009,"date":"2011-07-04T18:45:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2011-07-04T18:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T23:45:06","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: Limerock Road 4.0 miles]<\/p>\n

We went over to Starkville for a cookout with family today.\u00a0 That was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

We took along some fireworks: bottle rockets, firecrackers, sparklers and a few smoke bombs.\u00a0 I tried to get a picture of a packet of firecrackers going off.\u00a0 It looks like about how my ears felt!<\/p>\n

I enjoy July 4th.\u00a0 I am not a big fireworks kind of guy but I always like a picnic and lots of food.\u00a0 When we lived in Estes Park I would sometimes walk up the hill from our house and watch the fireworks over the lake.\u00a0 Then in Fort Collins we did a bit of stuff in the backyard but otherwise did not go to the public displays.<\/p>\n

The states where I have lived have always been non-fireworks states. You could drive to a neighboring state and buy firecrackers and whatnot and probably would not get into any trouble if you kept your usage to a minimum and otherwise didn’t cause the neighbors reason to call the police about it.\u00a0 But here in Mississippi there is a fireworks store about 5 miles from our house, glad to take our money and blow it up in a puff of smoke.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the kids enjoyed the bit of fireworks that we had, so it was cheap fun and nobody got hurt and the house didn’t burn down.\u00a0 So it was a success.<\/p>\n

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[Today’s run: Limerock Road 4.0 miles] We went over to Starkville for a cookout with family today.\u00a0 That was a lot of fun. We took along some fireworks: bottle rockets, firecrackers, sparklers and a few smoke bombs.\u00a0 I tried to get a picture of a packet of firecrackers going off.\u00a0 It looks like about how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}