{"id":8076,"date":"2014-07-04T19:28:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T00:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2015-04-27T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T21:36:39","slug":"happy-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/happy-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy fourth!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I&#8217;ve been a bit down lately about my status as a second class citizen since the recent Supreme Court decisions, and have been thinking about tangible things I can do to at least make myself feel like I&#8217;m doing something, even if it amounts to spitting in the wind. <\/p>\n<p>In the meantime though, my family is celebrating a very rain-sodden July 4th in the Berkshires and our barbecue got waylaid by the incessant rain. So&#8230;flag, and and barbecue trimmings being cooked in the kitchen. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140704-194756-71276635.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140704-194757-71277450.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/20140704-194758-71278870.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a bit down lately about my status as a second class citizen since the recent Supreme Court decisions, and have been thinking about tangible things I can do to at least make myself feel like I&#8217;m doing something, even if it amounts to spitting in the wind. In the meantime though, my family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,15,10],"class_list":["post-8076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-berkshires","tag-current-events","tag-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-26g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8076"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8383,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8076\/revisions\/8383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}