{"id":2484,"date":"2014-07-04T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T20:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2014-07-04T15:45:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T20:45:27","slug":"funtucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=2484","title":{"rendered":"Funtucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When #1 daughter (I have #1 daughter and #1 son&#8230;very convenient) was little, she was quite and very convinced that confetti was called, &#8220;Funtucky.&#8221; \u00a0I&#8217;m really not quite sure where she came up with this word, but ever since then, Confetti has been funtucky.<\/p>\n<p>Well, #1 son purchased a &#8220;Package&#8221; of fireworks for today, the 4th of July. \u00a0It had lots of fountains, fire crackers&#8230;all those kind of regular goodies. \u00a0It also had my very most favorite thing: \u00a0Party Poppers.<\/p>\n<p>If you are not familiar with Party Poppers, they are little plastic containers with a string. \u00a0You pull the string. \u00a0It goes &#8220;Bang&#8221; (a very, very small band, btw) and out comes confetti. \u00a0They&#8217;re fun!<\/p>\n<p>#1 daughter and #1 son both loved doing those when they were little. \u00a0They are harmless, they make a moderate mess and you can do them in the house. \u00a0No big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was in the living room this morning when #1 son was unpacking his fireworks and stumbled across this Party Popper. \u00a0It was the only one in the entire kit. \u00a0He, knowing how much I love those immediately handed it over without me even asking. \u00a0Smart kid (he&#8217;s almost 25).<\/p>\n<p>Paxton, my faithful, hungry and fraidy cat dog was watching. \u00a0He saw me eagerly take the Party Popper and had to know just what this thing was!<\/p>\n<p>I let Paxton sniff the Party Popper. \u00a0He, realizing that it was not something to eat walked away.<\/p>\n<p>As Paxton was walking away, I pulled the string. \u00a0I was not thinking. \u00a0The Party Popper went &#8220;Bang!&#8221; the the funtucky flew! \u00a0Cool Beans! \u00a0I love those things!<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing was, Paxton was no-where to be found! \u00a0He, all 130 pounds of puppy, had vanished! \u00a0We finally found him. \u00a0He had squeezed under MFH&#8217;s (My Favorite Husband&#8217;s) desk. \u00a0He was hiding. \u00a0Poor dog.<\/p>\n<p>I should have waited until he was out of the room before I pulled the string. \u00a0Bad me. \u00a0Tonight, when we set off the rest of the fireworks, all of the animals will be tucked in for the night. \u00a0We don&#8217;t want them to be more afraid than necessary. Plus, it is only one day out of the year that we do this and it IS fun!<\/p>\n<p>Happy 4th of July!!! \u00a0Enjoy your celebrations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When #1 daughter (I have #1 daughter and #1 son&#8230;very convenient) was little, she was quite and very convinced that confetti was called, &#8220;Funtucky.&#8221; \u00a0I&#8217;m really not quite sure where she came up with this word, but ever since then, Confetti has been funtucky. Well, #1 son purchased a &#8220;Package&#8221; of fireworks for today, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}