{"id":67,"date":"2008-07-06T17:47:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T00:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:31:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:31:06","slug":"post-holiday-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/post-holiday-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Holiday wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I celebrated Independence Day with my immediate family by eating pork ribs at their house and then going home, and then going to the fireworks at College Park later in the evening.  I&#8217;ll spare you the police and fire-zone related issues, and suffice it to say, a good time was had.  My aunt, uncle, and cousin found us and we all watched the fire works together.<\/p>\n<p>My sister took a short video of them:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=78cd7b0070&amp;photo_id=2640219597\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=55430\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=55430\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=78cd7b0070&amp;photo_id=2640219597\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday (saturday) was my 28th birthday, and there was yarn and sheep cake involved:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Huffin and Puffin by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2640205993\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3041\/2640205993_f71c17b756.jpg\" alt=\"Huffin and Puffin\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I ate its jugular vein; that is, where the pink ribbon is.  I named it Stan.) Earlier in the day, I went peddle boating with my dad at the Lafayette Reservoir and then we had breakfast at Country Waffles.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m going to order my loom and call it a day.\u00a0 Looks like we&#8217;re in for another heat wave, yay. At least the air quality has been better lately from all those fires that have been raging across California.\u00a0 Oh, and I learned how to put washer fluid in my car, that was pretty exciting.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/post-holiday-wrap-up\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I celebrated Independence Day with my immediate family by eating pork ribs at their house and then going home, and then going to the fireworks at College Park later in the evening. I&#8217;ll spare you the police and fire-zone related issues, and suffice it to say, a good time was had. My aunt, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/post-holiday-wrap-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Post Holiday wrap-up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[333,135,133,134],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-daily","tag-family","tag-fireworks","tag-my-birthday","tag-sheep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}