{"id":753,"date":"2015-07-06T15:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2015-07-06T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T11:07:58","slug":"hitting-all-the-high-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Hitting all the high notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how you spend July Fourth weekend if you live in the suburbs and have a one-year-old\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Friday night: celebrate all things great about America with pizza and s\u2019mores.<\/p>\n<p>(Silently curse neighbors with their fireworks going waaaaayyy to late into the evening.)<\/p>\n<p>Saturday: doughnuts from a place called Duck Donuts. I was a Duck Donuts virgin until this weekend. Seriously, it\u2019s worth driving past several other doughnut shops on your way there, including Starbucks, Dunkin\u2019 Donuts, and the other two Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>Followed by\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Morning baseball. Seriously. Eleven a.m. start time? I\u2019m in on that.<\/p>\n<p>Gig 2-5 at a winery\u2026 outdoors in a rainstorm. Can\u2019t win \u2019em all I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin and I played outside a bit in the evening when it stopped raining but he was asleep long before any fireworks began.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks on TV. I thought the lead up to the fireworks this year on \u201cA Capitol Fourth\u201d was pretty terrible, but passable with the sound off.<\/p>\n<p>(Silently curse neighbors with their fireworks going waaaaayyy to late into the evening.)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: not a damn thing.<\/p>\n<p>Perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how you spend July Fourth weekend if you live in the suburbs and have a one-year-old\u2026 Friday night: celebrate all things great about America with pizza and s\u2019mores. (Silently curse neighbors with their fireworks going waaaaayyy to late &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=753\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}