{"id":5854,"date":"2014-07-04T16:06:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:57:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T20:57:38","slug":"birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"birthday party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cjl1404-mcello-nickel-porch.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/visit\/events\/july-4th\">Fourth of July celebration and naturalization ceremony at Monticello<\/a> earlier today.<br \/>\nThe years I&#8217;ve attended the candidates for naturalization stand on the stairs of the nickel porch,<br \/>\na grand stage from which to step into citizenship.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cjl1404_A015692-mcello-sans-hats.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe only problem, the angle of the July sun during the ceremony challenges attendees.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cjl1404-flag-coke-mcello-sun.jpg\" alt=\"spectators shield themselves\"><br \/>\nLooking down is easier than looking into the sun.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cjl1404-Ganong-hats.jpg\" alt=\"hat people\"><br \/>\nThey make these clever things called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hat\">hats<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/cjn1426-c1313-boxer-sunglasses.jpg\" alt=\"dog with sunglasses\"><br \/>\nThe event at Monticello is beautiful, it is rich with memory and promise. It is free. It is highly recommended.<br \/>\nMonticello, Saturday July 4, 2015?<br \/>\nNote to self, hat &#038; sunglasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth of July celebration and naturalization ceremony at Monticello earlier today. The years I&#8217;ve attended the candidates for naturalization stand on the stairs of the nickel porch, a grand stage from which to step into citizenship. The only problem, the angle of the July sun during the ceremony challenges attendees. Looking down is easier than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/birthday-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;birthday party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}