{"id":29125,"date":"2019-07-06T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=29125"},"modified":"2019-07-06T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T07:01:52","slug":"fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Flag Is Flying Again This Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The flag is flying for the Fourth of July at our liberal elitist house again this year. Very patriotic, very festive, very hopeful. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Once again we’re flying the American flag this Fourth of July weekend at our house for all to see. Jon very obligingly tucked our flag pole into the flag-holder on the front of our garage yesterday. The result is festive — and yes, patriotic. No jets or tanks<\/a>, just the red, white and blue — and high hopes for the 243-year-old US of A.<\/p>\n

At our house we’re trusting that America’s friends around the world — and our not-so-friends — will patiently wait for brighter minds and hearts to reoccupy the White House and take our country and the world in a more sensible direction.<\/p>\n

Cherry Pie on the Fourth of July<\/h5>\n

As Jon and I returned from a barbecue up the street last night with another pair of empty nesters — ballpark franks and cherry pie were featured — Jon wondered whether we needed to take the flag down for the night. I voted no — life’s already too complicated and busy these days to overdo that respect for the flag thing.<\/p>\n

Happy Fourth of July weekend to one and all!<\/p>\n

More unapologetic patriotism — and a picture of the long-suffering Jon unfurling the flag — at “The American Flag Is Flying in My Liberal, Elitist Neighborhood Today. Here\u2019s Why.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Very festive. Very patriotic. No jets or tanks, just the red, white and blue flying on the Fourth of July at our house again this year. Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[533,245,309,29,1939,2160,1840,2161],"class_list":["post-29125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-american-flag","tag-empty-nesters","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-jon","tag-liberal-elitists","tag-liberal-politics","tag-patriotism","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}