{"id":3493,"date":"2013-07-05T00:52:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T05:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2013-07-05T00:52:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T05:52:57","slug":"independence-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3493","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/07\/capitol_fireworks_26204.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3494\" alt=\"capitol_fireworks_26204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2013\/07\/capitol_fireworks_26204.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/07\/capitol_fireworks_26204.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2013\/07\/capitol_fireworks_26204-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I decided to try a different angle for tonight&#8217;s capitol fireworks photo.\u00a0 I questioned whether to even try a photo at all, since I&#8217;ve been more devoted to Daddy time than anything else.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve taken an unprecedented week off from work, and am enjoying how much it has allowed me to do with my little guys and my sweetie.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than photograph the Independence Day Parade this year in Mandan, I joined my little family to participate in our church&#8217;s float instead.\u00a0 It was extremely rewarding, and worth missing photos of some of the cool things I&#8217;ve heard about in the parade.\u00a0 I was planning on not taking any photos of the capitol fireworks display, too&#8230;but at my wife&#8217;s urging I combined family time with a little bit of &#8220;me&#8221; time:<\/p>\n<p>I set up my camera with wireless transceiver with around 1,000 foot range, then went to enjoy the fireworks with my little guys on a blankie in the grass at the capitol.\u00a0 I was able to use the remote and time things pretty well, getting some neat photos.\u00a0 This one is my favorite.\u00a0 And, as my credo goes, any photo trip one returns from with at least <em>one<\/em> good photo is a successful trip.\u00a0 This one falls into that category, even though I spent most of it playing catch with my boy on the capitol lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Multitasking on my vacation, you say?\u00a0 Absolutely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to try a different angle for tonight&#8217;s capitol fireworks photo.\u00a0 I questioned whether to even try a photo at all, since I&#8217;ve been more devoted to Daddy time than anything else.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve taken an unprecedented week off from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=3493\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}