{"id":9005,"date":"2012-07-04T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9005"},"modified":"2012-07-04T21:29:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T01:29:52","slug":"happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9005","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/7504768866\/in\/photostream\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8282\/7504768866_a902dc406c.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight the fireworks (or at least noise-making, pop-pop-pop explosions) are flying fast and furious outside, but otherwise today was just an ordinary day. It&#8217;s a little weird to have a day off in the middle of the week, and it&#8217;s hard not feel like the day ought to be given over to quiet reflection of what it means to be American, or the history that&#8217;s led us here, or something like that. I mean, if you&#8217;re not dressing up like Ben Franklin or another founding father, you&#8217;re obviously doing something wrong, right? But I spent the day pretty much just like I did yesterday, only <i>Kaleidotrope<\/i> submissions and a couple episodes of <i>Would I Lie to You?<\/i> instead of work.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Today, on our nation&#8217;s birthday, the date that two hundred and thirty-six years ago we declared our independence from Great Britain, I spent watching a British panel game show.<\/p>\n<p>You have to understand, though, I kind of <i>love<\/i> <i>Would I Lie to You?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, no great plans for the evening either. We did a little barbecuing, but just because, well, it&#8217;s like a thousand degrees outside and who wants to light the oven in that?<\/p>\n<p>Happy July 4th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight the fireworks (or at least noise-making, pop-pop-pop explosions) are flying fast and furious outside, but otherwise today was just an ordinary day. It&#8217;s a little weird to have a day off in the middle of the week, and it&#8217;s hard not feel like the day ought to be given over to quiet reflection of &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9005\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,28,17],"class_list":["post-9005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-personal","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}