{"id":734,"date":"2011-07-04T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbyvanburen.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2011-07-04T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:35:44","slug":"sparkle-shine-and-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/07\/04\/sparkle-shine-and-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Sparkle, shine and BANG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day is my favorite summer holiday.\u00a0 I generally am not a great fan of the summer because it has a tendency to be too hot.\u00a0 Funny part is I do not like the winter either because of the snow.\u00a0 I guess there is\u00a0no making me happy with the weather.\u00a0 However, the Fourth of July no matter the weather would still be my favorite day of the month!<\/p>\n<p>People enjoy barbeques, festive desserts, outdoor activities, swimming, parades and fireworks.\u00a0 Fireworks are the highlight in my book.\u00a0 I love the multiple colors, whistles and final bang from the fireworks.\u00a0 There are certain areas that present the best fireworks.\u00a0 Usually in my state many of the fireworks are shot- off from riverbanks or old mill lots.\u00a0 Therefore many people tend to gather near there.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight was no exception.\u00a0 The parking was atrocious.\u00a0 I have never seen so many people flock to the riverside.\u00a0 People parked their cars even in the streets, blocking traffic.\u00a0 I had to drive around for half of the show before finding parking.\u00a0 Despite all of this I did find a really sweet spot half- way through the show and parked.\u00a0 The presentation was worth the driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day is my favorite summer holiday.\u00a0 I generally am not a great fan of the summer because it has a tendency to be too hot.\u00a0 Funny part is I do not like the winter either because of the snow.\u00a0 I guess there is\u00a0no making me happy with the weather.\u00a0 However, the Fourth of July &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/2011\/07\/04\/sparkle-shine-and-bang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sparkle, shine and BANG!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,19,27,31,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food-and-cooking","category-life","category-outdoors","category-recreation","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/abigailvanburen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}