{"id":596,"date":"2010-07-04T21:07:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=596"},"modified":"2010-07-04T21:07:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T04:07:09","slug":"sparklers-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=596","title":{"rendered":"Sparklers for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day!&#160; We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a busy day with church and family today, so I am just finding time to post a few of my feelings about independence and freedom on this site.&#160; I will share several items that inspired me this Fourth of July, plus perhaps a few few extra thoughts of my own as well.<\/p>\n<p>First on the list is this great photo of my grandson Devlin experiencing the thrill of a sparkler for the first time.&#160; He is vacationing with his family in Utah where such exciting things are still legal.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Devlin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mom for posting this photo on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rachel.e.dixon?ref=ts#!\/photo.php?pid=534586&amp;id=1685574678\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rachel.e.dixon?ref=ts#!\/photo.php?pid=534586&amp;id=1685574678\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/image.png\" width=\"390\" height=\"651\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the magic and awe that you felt when you were Delvin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s age and celebrated Indepence Day with sparklers?&#160; It was a great tradition for our family when we were growing up in Southern Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Fourth of July Devlin and all you sparkler-awed kids!<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bcf0468e-ce6d-48f9-b26d-d577849c47f0\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Independence+Day\" rel=\"tag\">Independence Day<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Fourth+of+July\" rel=\"tag\">Fourth of July<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Sparklers\" rel=\"tag\">Sparklers<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day!&#160; We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had a busy day with church and family today, so I am just finding time to post a few of my feelings about independence and freedom on this site.&#160; I will share several items that inspired &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=596\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[138,28,136,139],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-photo","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-freedom","tag-independence-day","tag-sparklers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}