{"id":89,"date":"2005-07-06T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T22:01:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-18T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T14:39:44","slug":"the-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/the-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So not even 24 hours after arriving back in Seattle, it was time to celebrate the 4th of July &#8211; or, as it is known over at the lake, the &quot;Who has more fireworks&quot; competition.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; We went to A.J.&#8217;s dad&#8217;s house on Lake Serene (in the Lynnwood area) and spent a nice morning and afternoon playing outside &#8211; there was ping pong, basketball (with games of both &quot;HORSE&quot; and &quot;JILL&quot; :-)), kayaking, and swimming in the lake on the &quot;Oasis Island&quot; of fun.&nbsp; This first picture is me with a braided water lily boquet that A.J. picked and braided for me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(6).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-07-06-15-01-02-5288.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>These are some of the &quot;getting ready for fireworks&quot; pictures.&nbsp; Chris has a propane torch that he and A.J. used for lighting off the massive show Al had stored up for the night.&nbsp; There&#8217;s also a picture of some of the fireworks&#8230; just SOME, beause there were SO many more than what you see here.&nbsp; It was really an amazing night &#8211; and a LOT of fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(11).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-07-06-15-01-02-1598.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(10).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-07-06-15-01-02-1277.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(12).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-07-06-15-01-02-5558.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This last picture is me with a glow stick headband &#8211; also very fun.&nbsp; Next year we will have a lot more glow sticks on hand for our audience to enjoy.&nbsp; (FYI Mom, these were the glow sticks that A.J. got for us to use in St Louis that we kept forgetting to pull out.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture(1).jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/user_files\/Image\/email\/2005-07-06-15-01-02-1539.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So not even 24 hours after arriving back in Seattle, it was time to celebrate the 4th of July &#8211; or, as it is known over at the lake, the &quot;Who has more fireworks&quot; competition.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; We went to A.J.&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/06\/the-4th\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jillcook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}