{"id":1511,"date":"2008-07-04T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2008-07-03T21:27:55","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T02:27:55","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that, on this day in 1776, &#8220;the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation&#8221;? Furthermore, &#8220;this most American of holidays will be marked by parades, fireworks and backyard barbecues across the country&#8221;? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/Press-Release\/www\/releases\/archives\/facts_for_features_special_editions\/011920.html\">Thanks, US Census Bureau<\/a>! Of more interest is the 3 in 4 chance that any fresh tomatoes eaten on hamburgers<sup><a href=\"#note1\">1<\/a><\/sup> comes from Florida or California. No word from the FDA about what your chance of catching Salmonella from those tomatoes is.<\/p>\n<p>For my American friends, happy Fourth of July. For my non-American friends, enjoy an Internet whose tubes are less clogged with Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"note1\"><\/a><sup>1<\/sup> The US Census Bureau actually talks about fresh tomatoes eaten in salad. Really, US Census Bureau? Salad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that, on this day in 1776, &#8220;the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation&#8221;? Furthermore, &#8220;this most American of holidays will be marked by parades, fireworks and backyard barbecues across the country&#8221;? Thanks, US Census Bureau! Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1511\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Fourth of July<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}