{"id":3222,"date":"2013-07-04T21:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T01:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=3222"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:27:15","slug":"independence-day-acton-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/07\/independence-day-acton-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day, Acton, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day in Acton, Massachusetts: It was blazing hot and the sky was a perfect New England blue with a few clouds. We went to Nara Park. The chair of the Board of Selectmen read a proclamation. Someone read the Gettysburg Address, then a color guard in Civil War uniforms fired their rifles. I ate a pulled pork sandwich I got from the Lions, Abby had fried chicken from a food truck, Jim ate a hotdog, Carol ate some of my potato chips. A Beatles cover band played. We left before the fireworks so we could sit in Abby and Jim&#8217;s living room and watch &#8220;Little Britain.&#8221; We went to bed late.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlogJul0413.jpg\" alt=\"BlogJul0413\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlogJul0413.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/BlogJul0413-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Independence Day sunset, Acton, Mass.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day in Acton, Massachusetts: It was blazing hot and the sky was a perfect New England blue with a few clouds. We went to Nara Park. The chair of the Board of Selectmen read a proclamation. Someone read the Gettysburg Address, then a color guard in Civil War uniforms fired their rifles. I ate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2013\/07\/independence-day-acton-mass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Independence Day, Acton, Mass.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,87],"tags":[955,595],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","category-road-trips","tag-2013-road-trip","tag-independence-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5231,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions\/5231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}