{"id":4557,"date":"2013-07-08T14:32:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4557"},"modified":"2013-07-08T14:32:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T21:32:49","slug":"from-this-years-independence-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4557","title":{"rendered":"From This Year&#8217;s Independence Day Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was without a doubt the most hazardous July 4th we&#8217;ve ever hosted at 121&#8230;.well, technically it was only <em>almost<\/em> hazardous. Two aerial fireworks managed to go waaay off course and fly into the garage, nearly tagging two of our guests, both first-timers. Ah well, try not to hold it against us, guys&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>After our niece Anastasia (okay, she&#8217;s really our friend Shawn&#8217;s daughter, but that whole crowd is like family to us) narrowly avoided a Close Encounter of the Burned Kind, she retreated indoors. After a particularly rambunctious 500-gram cake seemed to\u2014finally\u2014spend itself, Don, Rob and I (none of us the petite type) all sort of crept towards it. Noting our progress from the living room bay window, Anastasia was overheard saying to no one in particular, &#8220;sneaky <em>potatoes&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, it was lots of fun. Much food and good cheer. We got to show off our new patio, which worked exactly as planned; we easily seated 8\u201310 people outdoors, and everyone seemed to enjoy the new setting. Many thanks to everyone who came out.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip of one of Don&#8217;s FrankenFireworks, two 200-gram cakes duct-taped to a 300-shot Saturn Missile Battery. I think it was one of the missiles that almost took out our niece. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>[flv width=&#8221;960&#8243; height=&#8221;540&#8243;]http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/fireworks-2013.flv[\/flv]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was without a doubt the most hazardous July 4th we&#8217;ve ever hosted at 121&#8230;.well, technically it was only almost hazardous. Two aerial fireworks managed to go waaay off course and fly into the garage, nearly tagging two of our guests, both first-timers. Ah well, try not to hold it against us, guys&#8230;. After our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4570,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}