{"id":195,"date":"2011-07-05T22:19:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T02:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/?p=195"},"modified":"2011-07-05T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T02:27:16","slug":"just-me-and-the-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/?p=195","title":{"rendered":"Just me and the dogs!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-197\" title=\"IMAG0290\" src=\"http:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/IMAG0290-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/h2>\n<p>Early in the weekend I was thinking of making a post on the fourth stating that\u00a0 Maggs, Macy, Georgia and I were the only ones in our immediate family that are still in Indiana to celebrate the holiday.\u00a0 Well&#8230;.they didn&#8217;t do much celebrating.\u00a0 Between the thundershowers and the fireworks they spent pretty much the whole weekend hovering around me.<\/p>\n<p>Finally on Monday evening I put them all in their crates, hopped on my bike and went downtown to enjoy some of the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>I started at D.T. Kirby&#8217;s, what has become one of our favorite watering holes, for a 32 oz. Old Style and a sandwich that they call the Wedge.\u00a0 Hot turkey, ham, and roast beef with motzerella, grilled onions and green peppers on homemade bread.\u00a0 Yummy good.<\/p>\n<p>Then a short walk down to Riehle Plaza to see the Lafayette Citizens Band and the Freedom Singers in a Stars &amp; Stripes Celebration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-200\" title=\"IMAG0297\" src=\"http:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0297-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which also included a performance by the Tippecanoe Fife &amp; Drum Corps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-201\" title=\"IMAG0295\" src=\"http:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0295-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The whole time wishing that Nana would have laid out an outfit like this for me to wear so that I could have taken center stage dancing with this party-goer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-202\" title=\"IMAG0294\" src=\"http:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMAG0294-398x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dogs were fine in their crates with the stereo blasting so that they could not hear the fireworks and all in all it was a good weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in the weekend I was thinking of making a post on the fourth stating that\u00a0 Maggs, Macy, Georgia and I were the only ones in our immediate family that are still in Indiana to celebrate the holiday.\u00a0 Well&#8230;.they didn&#8217;t do much celebrating.\u00a0 Between the thundershowers and the fireworks they spent pretty much the whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dad.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}