{"id":6556,"date":"2025-07-30T20:27:42","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6556"},"modified":"2025-07-30T20:27:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:27:42","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2025\/07\/30\/independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s \u201cIndependence Day,\u201d and I\u2019m excited to see the fireworks show at the beach with my kids. I\u2019ve packed a small picnic of chicken sandwiches and soda, nothing fancy and we\u2019ll sit on the sand watching the sky light up. I want to make this day special for Charlie and Kenny since the divorce has been tough on them. <\/p>\n<p>My youngest, Kenny, takes my hand and gives me a warm smile while Charlie is sitting cross legged waiting. <\/p>\n<p>The sky bursts into red, green, blue and white and the look of joy on my boys\u2019 faces is all I need.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s \u201cIndependence Day,\u201d and I\u2019m excited to see the fireworks show at the beach with my kids. I\u2019ve packed a small picnic of chicken sandwiches and soda, nothing fancy and we\u2019ll sit on the sand watching the sky light up. I want to make this day special for Charlie and Kenny since the divorce has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2149,1355,13472,2869,13471,41,13470,3102,1221,5521,3514,2933,1736,1821,6201,13473],"class_list":["post-6556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-beach","tag-boys","tag-chicken-sandwiches","tag-divorce","tag-fireworks-show","tag-guest-contributor","tag-independence-day","tag-joy","tag-kids","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-picnic","tag-sand","tag-sky","tag-smile","tag-soda","tag-youngest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6557,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6556\/revisions\/6557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}