{"id":73217,"date":"2020-07-05T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=73217"},"modified":"2020-07-05T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T04:30:45","slug":"saturday-night-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2020\/07\/05\/saturday-night-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night – Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been the strangest Fourth of July I can remember.\u2026 This holiday has been one of our family’s favorites. Every year we’ve been in town we’ve been part of the parade and fireworks in our our town\u2026 Nearly 40 years. This is the first time it didn’t happen (except for Weather)\u2026 We missed our family . The day brings back great memories of Hately conceived floats done at the very last minute\u2026 And the kids were older we were just go hang out at the Bressor,’s and watch the parade. It was always a time for a really good potato chips.\u2026 I missed it<\/p>\n

\ufffcEven so\u2026 It was a peaceful day. Diane and I hung out together and sat out front watching cars go by\u2026 That was our parade.\ufffc<\/p>\n

We walked the dogs, went for a run\u2026 Dianne garden and I worked on a project that I’m doing with my brother\u2026 Things we both enjoy doing. Around eight some of my friends started showing up for our movie night. We all kept social distance\u2026 Everyone brought their own drinks and snacks. And then we turned on the movie\u2026 We watched a Popeye cartoon\u2026 Then a video of some recorded fireworks\u2026 And then we put on Will Smith in Independence day. It came out in 1996\u2026 And I don’t recall ever watching it. It was great in a schlocky Hollywood kind of way.\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc We had about 15 people spread across the yard watching it\u2026 And we had borrowed a very bright projector so it was really fun to watch\ufffc.<\/p>\n

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Brad and family Give us a show a real fireworks from over there side of Route two\ufffc<\/p>\n

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It’s funny\u2026 Watching that movie\u2026 I was thinking about the state that our country is in. I’ve never felt that this country was on as bad path as it is on now. I’m hopeful that it’s getting so bad that it will have to change directions. We simply need a regime change. We need to get back to a sense of common good, sense of equality racial justice\u2026 Back away from the divisive Ness that were in now. I love my country\u2026 Just not my government<\/p>\n

Happy fourth everyone\u2026 Let’s try to turn this around\ufffc<\/p>\n

Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This has been the strangest Fourth of July I can remember.\u2026 This holiday has been one of our family’s favorites. Every year we’ve been in town we’ve been part of the parade and fireworks in our our town\u2026 Nearly 40 years. This is the first time it didn’t happen (except for Weather)\u2026 We missed our … Continue reading Saturday night – Independence Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73218,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73217\/revisions\/73218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}