{"id":2928,"date":"2011-07-04T22:09:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2011-07-06T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T14:25:30","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/happy-fourth-of-july-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week the theme is: Red, White & Blue.\u00a0 Of course!<\/p>\n

We started out this morning picking black caps.\u00a0 My parents had a wild bunch start growing near their deck, and every year about this time they start getting ripe.\u00a0 They have to pack the most sweetness in the smallest berry space – they’re tiny, but so, so yummy.\u00a0 (Not quite blue.\u00a0 But they do stain red when squished!)<\/p>\n

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Watch those prickers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A pint of pure deliciousness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then we spent the afternoon at my grandparents’ house.\u00a0 My great uncle lives next door and has a retired race horse living on his farm.\u00a0 Carolyn and Anna and their cousins Benny and Ryan wanted to go feed Brownie, so we walked over to the pasture and fed Brownie apples, carrots and many handfuls of tall grass.\u00a0 Poor Brownie probably had a stomachache after eating all that grass!<\/p>\n

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Feeding Brownie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kids on the farm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We decided Anna was not going to make it through a late night of fireworks, so Denis took Carolyn to see them while I’m at home with a sleeping kid and a neurotic dog who feels the need to growl and bark at every pop of a firecracker outside.\u00a0 It’s been a long evening…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week the theme is: Red, White & Blue.\u00a0 Of course! We started out this morning picking black caps.\u00a0 My parents had a wild bunch start growing near their deck, and every year about this time they start getting ripe.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-summer-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}