{"id":1787,"date":"2011-07-06T18:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2011-07-07T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T07:39:44","slug":"finale-%e2%80%a2-fourth-of-july-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/finale-%e2%80%a2-fourth-of-july-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"finale \u2022 fourth of july 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, we invite family &amp; friends to potluck &amp; enjoy front row seats to see the local fireworks from the balcony of my parents&#8217; house. It&#8217;s a late-night gathering, because the fireworks display begins after it&#8217;s completely dark&#8211;usually around 9:30 PM. As the kids get older, they are more likely to stay awake long enough to see what all the excitement&#8217;s about, but every year, there&#8217;s at least one littl&#8217;un that succumbs to sleep before (or sometimes during) the show. This was my favorite pic from our party this year: Sweet Neave asleep on her Daddy&#8217;s shoulder, her parents trying to beat the traffic &amp; heading out before the show was over. In the background, you can see the finale; the foreground, Chris &amp; Shannon catching one last glimpse before heading home at the end of a three-day weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1788\" title=\"i-hGzRP9w-L\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/i-hGzRP9w-L.jpg\" alt=\"\"   srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/i-hGzRP9w-L.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/i-hGzRP9w-L-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, we invite family &amp; friends to potluck &amp; enjoy front row seats to see the local fireworks from the balcony of my parents&#8217; house. It&#8217;s a late-night gathering, because the fireworks display begins after it&#8217;s completely dark&#8211;usually around 9:30 PM. As the kids get older, they are more likely to stay awake long&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,41,7,39,6],"tags":[21,34,120,118,110,12,114,17,108],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-holidays","category-babies-children","category-personal","category-family-session","tag-at-home","tag-colour","tag-events","tag-holidays","tag-babies-children","tag-natural","tag-personal","tag-toddlers","tag-family-session"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}