{"id":7254,"date":"2026-07-05T18:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/?p=7254"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:46:25","slug":"happy-250-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/2026\/07\/05\/happy-250-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 250, America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was July 4th, Independence Day here in the USA. This year marks America&#8217;s 250th Anniversary, or put technically semiquincentennial (or quarter millenial)<\/p>\n<p>As we always do, we parked in the lot from our old Big Lots to watch the local fireworks. Here&#8217;s a photo and video I took<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-7254-1\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020202957.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020202957.mp4\">https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020202957.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020048611-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020048611-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020048611-771x1024.jpg 771w, https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020048611-768x1020.jpg 768w, https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020048611-1157x1536.jpg 1157w, https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020048611-1542x2048.jpg 1542w, https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/PXL_20260705_020048611-scaled.jpg 1928w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was July 4th, Independence Day here in the USA. This year marks America&#8217;s 250th Anniversary, or put technically semiquincentennial (or quarter millenial) As we always do, we parked in the lot from our old Big Lots to watch the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/2026\/07\/05\/happy-250-america\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7254\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/always-forever.us\/DarkOne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}