{"id":1018,"date":"2008-07-05T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2008-07-05T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T12:03:27","slug":"fourth-of-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started off with some raking and watering, then cleaned out the frig, paid bills, dropped in on a neighborhood party, watched part of the Twilight Zone marathon.<br \/>\nCrossed the bridge to Wareham, where I picked up a &#8220;beauty sheet&#8221; at my friend Carolyn&#8217;s old cottage, checked out a concert in Onset Village, then spent the rest of the day at the machatonim&#8217;s waterfront house in Cromesset.<br \/>\nThe kids and I went for a beach walk and their little cousin spotted a horseshoe crab moult.  Turns out, he&#8217;s very interested in &#8220;mawine biology&#8221;, wants to be a scuba diver and later on, waved a flashlight in our faces and invited us to hunt for &#8220;cwickets&#8221;.<br \/>\nThere was a long and spectacular fireworks display afterwards, and we must have seen over two dozen similar home-grown spectacles along the beaches.<br \/>\nAs one of Bonnie&#8217;s aunts said, it&#8217;s enough to reassure you that maybe the economy isn&#8217;t as bad as all that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started off with some raking and watering, then cleaned out the frig, paid bills, dropped in on a neighborhood party, watched part of the Twilight Zone marathon. Crossed the bridge to Wareham, where I picked up a &#8220;beauty sheet&#8221; at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1018\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}