{"id":1215,"date":"2011-07-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2016-05-11T07:45:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:45:09","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Wishing my fellow residents of the U.S. a Happy Independence Day!<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I will observe two friends be sworn in as our country&#8217;s newest citizens.  I helped coach them through the arduous citizenship process.  They earned this special moment, and I am thrilled for their accomplishment!  Once again, we&#8217;ll be at a ceremony at the birthplace of the U.S. National Anthem, Ft. McHenry, near Baltimore, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>After that, I&#8217;ll head back home and feed my partner lunch.  Then I&#8217;ll drop in at my brother&#8217;s home as I always do on July 4 to have some Maryland steamed crabs.  Um-um!  I won&#8217;t stay long, though, because my partner will not go with me, and I don&#8217;t want to be away from him too long.  I&#8217;ll bring him back some crabs, which he likes as much as I do.<\/p>\n<p>In the evening, we&#8217;ll relax in our cool, comfortable basement, and watch fireworks and concerts on television.  Yeah &#8230; TV.  My partner doesn&#8217;t want to go out, and I can&#8217;t stand the hassles. It&#8217;s no fun any more with all the security garbage in place that wasn&#8217;t there when I was a kid.  Plus, we can see it better on TV than in person.  <\/p>\n<p>Happy 235th birthday, America!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing my fellow residents of the U.S. a Happy Independence Day! This morning, I will observe two friends be sworn in as our country&#8217;s newest citizens. I helped coach them through the arduous citizenship process. They earned this special moment, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1215\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}