{"id":1874,"date":"2014-07-04T08:25:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2014-07-04T08:25:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:25:34","slug":"friday-4-july-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/07\/04\/friday-4-july-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 4 July 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><big><big><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Happy Birthday USA!<\/span><\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">As you celebrate Independence Day today, please take a moment to think about the men and women of our armed forces, past and present, who have willingly risked, and all too often lost, everything to defend our freedom. I worry about America, but there can be nothing very wrong with a country that continues to produce men and women like them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The coast apparently got nailed pretty badly, but we&#8217;ve seen no effects at all from the hurricane. No rain, no wind, not even any clouds. We&#8217;re not doing anything special for the holiday. Barbara is doing stuff in the yard and later maybe some kit stuff. She&#8217;s meeting her sister and a friend for dinner and then going to watch the fireworks. Colin and I will watch Heartland reruns until Barbara returns. He&#8217;s terrified of thunderstorms and fireworks, so I&#8217;ll keep the sound turned up and let him cower on the sofa beside me until Barbara gets home.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday USA!<\/p>\n<p>As you celebrate Independence Day today, please take a moment to think about the men and women of our armed forces, past and present, who have willingly risked, and all too often lost, everything to defend our freedom. I worry about America, but there can be nothing very wrong with a country that continues to produce men and women like them.\n<\/p>\n<p>The coast apparently got nailed pretty badly, but we&#8217;ve seen no effects at all from the hurricane.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/07\/04\/friday-4-july-2014\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Friday, 4 July 2014 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}