{"id":335,"date":"2012-07-04T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=335"},"modified":"2012-07-04T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:37:53","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=335","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day<\/p>\n<p>Today is the 4th of July, 2012. \u00a0I tuned into NPR this morning for the express purpose of listening to their annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. \u00a0There is just something about listening to that piece of literature and find myself being amazed at the &#8220;audacity&#8221; of our countrymen who declared themselves a separate entity from Great Britian. \u00a0That took nerve.<\/p>\n<p>As I do every year, I wonder about our Country now and it&#8217;s political health. \u00a0Back then people took a big step to stand up against the tyranny they saw being leveraged against them. \u00a0They did not back down. \u00a0If we were in the same position today, would we have what it took to take the same stance that was taken back then? \u00a0I wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But now we celebrate! \u00a0Hot dogs, watermelon, ice cream, BBQ, fireworks&#8230;the list is endless the way we celebrate and celebrate we do! \u00a0I trust you spent a little part of your day being thankful for the stance those brave people took 236 years ago today and for the sacrifices made.<\/p>\n<p>We also celebrated my nephew&#8217;s 14 birthday! \u00a0Happy Birthday to John!!! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Johns-b-day-4th-of-july-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-336\" title=\"John's b-day\/ 4th of july \" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Johns-b-day-4th-of-july-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Johns-b-day-4th-of-july-001.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Johns-b-day-4th-of-july-001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Johns-b-day-4th-of-july-001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Johns-b-day-4th-of-july-001-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a0Rest Day Today is the 4th of July, 2012. \u00a0I tuned into NPR this morning for the express purpose of listening to their annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. \u00a0There is just something about listening to that piece of literature and find myself being amazed at the &#8220;audacity&#8221; of our countrymen who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335"}],"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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}