{"id":71,"date":"2006-05-26T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-05-29T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T14:30:32","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/26\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the holiday joy one hears on the Friday before Memorial Day (&#8220;<em>Three-day week-end [clap, clap, clap-clap-clap]<\/em>&#8220;), we should stop for just a few seconds and think about what it all means.<\/p>\n<p>The History Channel has put together a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historychannel.com\/exhibits\/memorial\/index.jsp?page=history\" target=\"_blank\">brief history<\/a> of the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that you and I are here, that things like blogs and History Channels and vacations (and the things we vacation from) even exist, is *wholly* dependent on the efforts of others.  They deserve our thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the holiday joy one hears on the Friday before Memorial Day (&#8220;Three-day week-end [clap, clap, clap-clap-clap]&#8220;), we should stop for just a few seconds and think about what it all means. The History Channel has put together a nice brief history of the holiday. The fact that you and I are here, that things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}