{"id":4146,"date":"2014-07-04T17:20:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T21:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2023-07-23T14:31:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T18:31:52","slug":"oldwick-n-j-to-stow-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/07\/oldwick-n-j-to-stow-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldwick, N.J., to Stow, Mass."},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday evening in Oldwick, we saw a spectacular thundershower go through: sheets and waves of wind-blown rain, spectacular lightning right overhead, and through it all the fireflies rising out of the brilliant green grass.<\/p>\n

\"Oldwick,<\/p>\n

Above: Oldwick, N.J.<\/em><\/p>\n

There were a few showers this morning before we left New Jersey. By the time we were in Connecticut, the rain was coming down steadily. It was going to be a wet Independence Day in southern New England.<\/p>\n

We arrived in Stow, Mass., at about four o’clock, just in time for an indoor picnic lunch with Carol’s dad and stepmom and some of their friends. After dinner, we tried to go for a walk in downtown Maynard, Mass.<\/p>\n

\"Maynard,<\/p>\n

Above: Maynard, Mass.<\/em><\/p>\n

At first it was pleasant walking. We stopped in at a combined video rental and used book store, called “Movie Signals and Art Signals,” that was open on Independence Day. They had more customers than I would have thought; but then, what else are you going to do on a rainy Fourth of July? — you’re certainly not going to go watch fireworks. We stayed for a while, then tried to keep walking, but the rain was coming down even harder, and my pants were soaked through and my rain coat started to leak — Carol was fine under her umbrella — so we gave up and went home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday evening in Oldwick, we saw a spectacular thundershower go through: sheets and waves of wind-blown rain, spectacular lightning right overhead, and through it all the fireflies rising out of the brilliant green grass. Above: Oldwick, N.J. There were a few showers this morning before we left New Jersey. By the time we were in … Continue reading “Oldwick, N.J., to Stow, Mass.”<\/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":[87],"tags":[956,595],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-trips","tag-2014-road-trip","tag-independence-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","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=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4151,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}