{"id":12050,"date":"2022-07-02T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=12050"},"modified":"2022-07-02T11:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:56:01","slug":"happy-independence-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2022\/07\/02\/happy-independence-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that everyone has a good Holiday.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to ignore all the \u201cNews\u201d and enjoy some simple peace &amp; quiet.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got a good supply of bourbon. Plenty of ice, and some decent burgers for the grill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No plans to go anywhere, no plans to see anyone.<\/p>\n<p>If a friend drops by they\u2019ll be welcomed, but with gas prices as high as they are I doubt anyone will make the pilgrimage.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking forward to getting some writing done, and playing with the dog.<\/p>\n<p>The dog is not interested in playing too much when it\u2019s hot. I know he\u2019d be much happier if we lived in Alaska. At temps above 75\u00b0F he lives for ice cubes bouncing out of the icemaker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think he could possibly be a cheaper companion to have around. Ice cubes or cold carrots and he\u2019s over the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Happy 4th of July.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday America.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"50913-iStock-638589782.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/50913-iStock-638589782.jpg\" alt=\"50913 iStock 638589782\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that everyone has a good Holiday. My plan is to ignore all the \u201cNews\u201d and enjoy some simple peace &amp; quiet. I\u2019ve got a good supply of bourbon. Plenty of ice, and some decent burgers for the grill.\u00a0 No plans to go anywhere, no plans to see anyone. If a friend drops by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2022\/07\/02\/happy-independence-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Independence Weekend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[176],"class_list":["post-12050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12051,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12050\/revisions\/12051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}