{"id":4395,"date":"2010-07-01T13:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T18:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2010-07-01T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T18:14:38","slug":"parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/parades\/","title":{"rendered":"Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4396\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/01\/parades\/paradefloats\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4396\" title=\"ParadeFloats\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/paradefloats.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everybody loves a parade.<\/strong> Well, at least the kids look forward to the candy. It&#8217;s been a tradition for years to attend the parade in my hometown over the Fourth and every year I wonder what constitutes a parade float. I don&#8217;t know if the standards were ever set too high, but lately it seems all you need to do is slap a magnetic sign on the side of your sports car, wave a flag and toss candy. Aside from the occasional marching band, or color guard, it&#8217;s more like a slow moving traffic commercial that only gets longer during the political season. I realize it takes time, effort and money to decorate and construct a float, and I&#8217;m not expecting the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but maybe a little more effort would make it worth going to. I can buy a bag of tootsie rolls and plant my lawn chair on the curb to watch slow-moving traffic any day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody loves a parade. Well, at least the kids look forward to the candy. It&#8217;s been a tradition for years to attend the parade in my hometown over the Fourth and every year I wonder what constitutes a parade float. I don&#8217;t know if the standards were ever set too high, but lately it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3XRuE-parades","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}