{"id":7894,"date":"2021-07-03T18:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T01:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2021\/07\/03\/independence-day-july-4-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-07-03T18:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T01:11:31","slug":"independence-day-july-4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2021\/07\/03\/independence-day-july-4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day &#8211; July 4, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an awesome video on the origin of our National Anthem . . .<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YaxGNQE5ZLA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The video tells the story of Francis Scott Key as he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry from British ships in the Chesapeake. I have to tell you I got a lump in my throat a couple of times while watching this one. Key, of course wrote the words to the Anthem. The tune was taken from an old English-originated folk march.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Independence Day &#8211; we&#8217;re celebrating at home with some simple grilled tenderloin (Filet Mignon) steaks and a nice salad. No fireworks because dogs. We hope everyone enjoys the celebration on this extended weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <strong>Braden<\/strong> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCGkAebzIWfSm7upwZ1UIsAg\">Langley Outdoors Academy<\/a> for showing this video to us a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an awesome video on the origin of our National Anthem . . . The video tells the story of Francis Scott Key as he&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,83,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-notions","category-patriotism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}