{"id":2561,"date":"2013-07-04T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2013-06-30T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:03:05","slug":"fourth-of-july-on-the-esplanade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/07\/04\/fourth-of-july-on-the-esplanade\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July on the Esplanade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Core wishes a happy Fourth of July to all students &#8211; especially those lucky enough to be there at the Esplanade for the celebration!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment2563\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/charles.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2563\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2563\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" title=\"charles\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/charles-300x200.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/charles-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/charles.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment2563\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esplanade Celebration on June 30th, 1945<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment2562\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/fireworks.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2562\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2562\" height=\"200\" width=\"300\" title=\"fireworks\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/fireworks-300x200.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/fireworks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/06\/fireworks.jpg 918w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment2562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Esplanade Celebration on July 4th, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Kara Baskin of <em>The Boston Globe<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>July Fourth commemorates the Declaration of Independence. It is hard to feel independent when cheek-to-jowl with someone in a foam Statue of Liberty hat. But we fought to be here then \u2014 and as anyone knows who has rushed to the Esplanade at dawn, blanket and stocked cooler in hand, for the best view \u2014 we haven\u2019t stopped fighting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/b.globe.com\/14GfIRB\">b.globe.com\/14GfIRB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Core wishes a happy Fourth of July to all students &#8211; especially those lucky enough to be there at the Esplanade for the celebration! Kara Baskin of The Boston Globe writes: July Fourth commemorates the Declaration of Independence. It is hard to feel independent when cheek-to-jowl with someone in a foam Statue of Liberty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3892,189,477,3891,441,3887],"tags":[44849,48372,48368,48374,48375,48317,649,48367,48370,48371,48373],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}