{"id":157,"date":"2005-07-04T15:28:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T20:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/?p=157"},"modified":"2005-07-09T11:23:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-09T16:23:37","slug":"does-michigan-celebrate-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/04\/does-michigan-celebrate-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Michigan celebrate Independence Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/faces\/mad.gif\" class=\"face\" \/>Apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>I checked all the websites of the state and all major cities nearby.  There are absolutely no public events anywhere.  Has the 4th become too much of a family and friends day?  It should be a public celebration.  There aren&#8217;t even any public fireworks displays today, the 4th of July, AKA Independence Day.  Wait, Detroit had its display on the 1st; 1st does not equal 4th, I hope.  I would imagine such a holiday, a national one even, would draw a little more interest in public awareness of such an important day and at least education for the children.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the cities, Ann Arbor was the only city that had any information available on their website and it was for a 1 hour parade at 10 am.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was part of the Heartland of America.  Or perhaps, the people of Michigan don&#8217;t like to publish important information on the web.  \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll just have to toss some meat on the grill for old times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently not. I checked all the websites of the state and all major cities nearby. There are absolutely no public events anywhere. Has the 4th become too much of a family and friends day? It should be a public celebration. There aren&#8217;t even any public fireworks displays today, the 4th of July, AKA Independence Day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksarse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}