{"id":16888,"date":"2015-07-04T12:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16888"},"modified":"2015-07-04T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T20:00:29","slug":"the-glorious-fourth-2015-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16888","title":{"rendered":"The Glorious Fourth, 2015 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from the Sunnywood Estates 4th of July Parade, Tucson, Arizona:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_1494 by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/18792921433\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/527\/18792921433_28e3cf858f_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1494\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_1502 by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/19407342632\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/321\/19407342632_7d628eda3a_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1502\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_1499 by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/19407317792\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/320\/19407317792_8049b0030b_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1499\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_1497 by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/18791036354\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"click to view full sized image on Flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/1\/488\/18791036354_842a4df921_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1497\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, we&#8217;re in our annual monsoon season &#8230; the overcast greatly reduced the temperature\u00a0(if not the humidity), and it was\u00a0pleasant outside. Of course the parade was at nine in the morning. Any later and it would have been too hot, overcast or not.<\/p>\n<p>After the parade we all walked over to a neighbor&#8217;s home for a potluck brunch. We hosted a few years ago and I suppose our turn&#8217;s coming round again. There are 33 homes in the neighborhood, but about half the residents\u00a0don&#8217;t\u00a0participate, and of those remaining not all are able to host neighborhood gatherings: some of our elderly neighbors\u00a0are no longer up to it; others\u00a0go away for the summer; a few\u00a0are probably grinches (but you didn&#8217;t hear that from me). Still &#8230; how many of us live in neighborhoods where there are enough motivated residents to organize\u00a0events like this? We think we&#8217;re very lucky to live here with such a bunch of great people.<\/p>\n<p>It is indeed a glorious fourth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos from the Sunnywood Estates 4th of July Parade, Tucson, Arizona: As you can see, we&#8217;re in our annual monsoon season &#8230; the overcast greatly reduced the temperature\u00a0(if not the humidity), and it was\u00a0pleasant outside. Of course the parade was at nine in the morning. Any later and it would have been too hot, overcast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[555,2,1601],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-color","category-personal","category-photoblogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16893,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16888\/revisions\/16893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}