{"id":587,"date":"2009-07-08T02:17:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2009-07-11T16:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T20:16:47","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"I think that is the same lamppost that I ended up having in my pictures last year from the fireworks as well.\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0116s.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 15px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I just found out that the phone on my camera was set to take pictures as a pretty small size, so all the pictures I have from the 4th of July fireworks in downtown Akron are 320&#215;240, which is hardly good enough even to show on the site, but I am going to do it anyway.  I don&#8217;t really have a choice since these are all the pictures I have.  I probably would have made another entry on my pictures page if I had taken my camera.<\/p>\n<p>The fireworks were actually pretty awesome.  I took Tim with us, since he was coming over anyway to play Xbox 360 and watch a movie.  We got ice cream at a convenience store downtown and some sandwiches from Burger King, since I didn&#8217;t have time to get the kids dinner at home.<\/p>\n<p>The fireworks were not the only show to be had.  There was another disturbance which led to a whole crowd of people running down the street, thankfully not trampling us underneath them, as the police chased some guys who obviously did something stupid.  The guy tried to hurdle a curb, but tripped.  Guess he should have pulled his pants up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">_______________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Eddy is pretty happy to be here with his water and having just finished his ice cream bar.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0084s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0084s.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 3px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><a title=\"This was as close as I got to a smile from Patty.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0085s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0085s.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 3px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Tim does not mind me taking pictures.  Matter of fact Tim thinks I should be taking more and posting them here.  I agree.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0087.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0087.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 3px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a title=\"A decent shot of downtown Akron.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0089s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0089s.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 3px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Kids are positioned to watch the fireworks.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0101s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0101s.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 3px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a title=\"KABOOM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0104s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0104s.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 3px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><a title=\"POW\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0107s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/phone\/IMAG0107s.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 3px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-right: 3px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that the phone on my camera was set to take pictures as a pretty small size, so all the pictures I have from the 4th of July fireworks in downtown Akron are 320&#215;240, which is hardly good enough even to show on the site, but I am going to do it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[198,15,197,199],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","tag-4th-of-july","tag-akron","tag-fireworks","tag-stupid-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}