{"id":27884,"date":"2024-07-02T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=27884"},"modified":"2024-07-02T10:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:11:28","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1000005363-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1000005363-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27885\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1000005363-1024x659.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1000005363-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1000005363-768x494.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1000005363-1536x988.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1000005363-2048x1317.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we approach July 4th and all the family memories this evokes, I realize that it might be easy to believe that some years are for making memories and some years are for reminiscing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My wish is that you can enjoy <strong>both<\/strong> this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He who binds to himself a joy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Does the winged life destroy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He who kisses the joy as it flies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lives in eternity&#8217;s sunrise<\/p>\n<cite>Eternity, by William Blake<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(And happy day to us, July 2 is the anniversary of the first day I saw our house in 2012 and knew that we should live here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach July 4th and all the family memories this evokes, I realize that it might be easy to believe that some years are for making memories and some years are for reminiscing. My wish is that you can enjoy both this year. He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/independence-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Independence 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":[13,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-home","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884","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=27884"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27892,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27884\/revisions\/27892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}