{"id":104,"date":"2008-07-07T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-07-20T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T03:21:00","slug":"a-very-happy-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/07\/a-very-happy-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Happy Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t know about you, but I had a fantastic Fourth of July!\u00a0 It was a very family-oriented holiday this year.\u00a0 It felt like a day drafted by Normal Rockwell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We started the day by sleeping in a bit (well, the kids let us sleep until 8:30am), swam\/played in pool with the kids, grilled hamburgers for lunch, grilled hot dogs and veggies for an early dinner, then went to a\u00a0neighborhood festival to watch the fireworks.\u00a0 Before the fireworks started, we\u00a0ate snowcones and threw a football around.\u00a0 Afterwards we came home and set off our own fireworks in the driveway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What a great holiday.\u00a0 I only wish all holidays could be that relaxing.\u00a0 And to the handful of British readers that visit my blog&#8230; we may have won our independence, but you&#8217;ve got me addicted to your sci-fi programs.\u00a0 Curse you!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-104\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" 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