{"id":456,"date":"2009-07-04T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T20:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-07-06T06:42:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T10:42:09","slug":"independence-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/04\/independence-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/8788413_dorrs#581817217_drpbE\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"Parade Color Gaurd\" src=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/photos\/581817217_drpbE-S.jpg\" alt=\"Parade\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Celebration and counting blessings for our life in USA was the theme of the day. \u00a0The kids loved the Carmel parade, especially the candy portion. \u00a0The Chinese Community dragon was also a highlight. \u00a0Today we have friends over for BBQ &#8211; nothing fancy, just brats, salad and drinks.<\/p>\n<p>A tradition that is forming in our house is to all gather in Emily&#8217;s bedroom on the second floor of our house around sunset. \u00a0Conner Prairie is located just east of our home and Emily&#8217;s large bedroom window provides a great vantage point to see the fireworks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/8788413_dorrs\/1\/581816150_HdwCm#581819346_Num7Z\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/photos\/581819346_Num7Z-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night was Benny&#8217;s first time to join the family on Emily&#8217;s bed as we watch the sky light up and guess when the &#8220;big finale&#8221; is coming. \u00a0Nothing simpler nor more memorable than a family gathered in darkness on a twin bed watching fireworks out the window as the family dog tries to squish through to get the best view.<\/p>\n<p>A few more parade pictures are available on our <a href=\"http:\/\/takmad.smugmug.com\/gallery\/8788413_dorrs\/1\/581816150_HdwCm#581815577_ZEjBY\" target=\"_blank\">SmugMug site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009-07-06 Update<\/strong>: I have just uploaded a short video of the parade to our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/video\/wordpress\/?p=195\" target=\"_blank\">family video section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebration and counting blessings for our life in USA was the theme of the day. \u00a0The kids loved the Carmel parade, especially the candy portion. \u00a0The Chinese Community dragon was also a highlight. \u00a0Today we have friends over for BBQ &#8211; nothing fancy, just brats, salad and drinks. A tradition that is forming in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaskrohn.com\/family\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}