{"id":2450,"date":"2025-07-04T04:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2025-07-11T04:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:31:33","slug":"happy-4th-of-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/04\/happy-4th-of-july-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 4th of July!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here we are, Happy 4th of July!  1\/2 way through the year &#8211; wow!  It is funny how the years fly by as you get older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember as a kid, the summer break would seem to last a lifetime and never end? Hang out with friends, play, swim, sleep&#8230; The &#8216;Real&#8217; life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was all so simple back then!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had a fun 4th, went to the parade in Firestone, hung out with Kathy and family!  Kathy made some killer burritos and green chili -it was amazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great way to start the day, burrito in hand and all the performers and vehicles in the parade.  It weas a good parade this year, probably the biggest and definitely the busiest I have ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More people than you can believe for Firestone for sure!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that everyone came back to our house for ribs, and some fun in the backyard pool, and just hanging out &#8211; it was perfect!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are, Happy 4th of July! 1\/2 way through the year &#8211; wow! It is funny how the years fly by as you get older. Remember as a kid, the summer break would seem to last a lifetime and never end? Hang out with friends, play, swim, sleep&#8230; The &#8216;Real&#8217; life! It was all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2452,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}