{"id":12217,"date":"2016-06-15T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2016-06-15T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T17:35:31","slug":"flag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/flag-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1342.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1342.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_1342\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1342.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1342-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1342-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1340.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1340.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_1340\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1340.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1340-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1340-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1348.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1348.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_1348\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1348.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1348-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1348-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1350.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12220\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1350.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_1350\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1350.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1350-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1350-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>Flag Day is the inauguration of summer for me. It reminds me that it is time to put out my red, white, and blue plates on the shelves, and fill my containers with flags and flowers. It is a heavy\u00a0reminder that June is almost half over. (Don&#8217;t waste your summer, Angie!) Richard has been\u00a0gone quite a bit\u00a0on Scout camp outs and\u00a0trips to buy four wheelers, so I updated our living room while he was away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1336.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_1336\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1336.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1336-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1336-449x300.jpg 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summer reading for me always includes a biography. I can&#8217;t believe this has been out for twelve years and no one told me how good it is. I am also working through a book to help me with\u00a0Isaiah, which isn&#8217;t nearly as good. <em>No offense, Isaiah. Sincerely, a modern reader.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1337.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12223\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1337.jpg\" alt=\"1-DSC_1337\" width=\"434\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1337.jpg 434w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/1-DSC_1337-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a>There are many summer projects. For Family Home Evening on Monday, we read\u00a0Luke 2:52, &#8220;And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.&#8221; Each of us made\u00a0summer goals in the same four areas: wisdom, stature, in favor with God, and in favor with man.<\/p>\n<p>I need these goals. Summer is my least productive time of year. My grandmother says it&#8217;s our Scandinavian genes\u00a0that make it so difficult to do anything when it&#8217;s hot. I fight every day to stay active\u00a0during the summer, even if it just means I am redecorating shelves, hemming new curtains, or taking notes on a book. When the day is over\u00a0and I have\u00a0contributed to the house and made some notes from my studies, I can call it a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flag Day is the inauguration of summer for me. It reminds me that it is time to put out my red, white, and blue plates on the shelves, and fill my containers with flags and flowers. It is a heavy\u00a0reminder that June is almost half over. (Don&#8217;t waste your summer, Angie!) Richard has been\u00a0gone quite &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/flag-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flag Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,28,13,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-family-home-evening","category-family-time","category-home","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12225,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12217\/revisions\/12225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}