{"id":319,"date":"2004-07-04T23:22:54","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T23:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20040704232254"},"modified":"2004-07-05T04:51:27","modified_gmt":"2004-07-05T04:51:27","slug":"04072004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/04072004\/","title":{"rendered":"Long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/sparklers.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/sparklers-small.jpg\" alt=\"Sparklers\" title=\"Click for larger view.\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12\"><\/a>This has felt like a long weekend, with Canada Day on Thursday, and a very quiet work day on Friday.  Today we held a small gathering for those wanting to celebrate American independence day.  We&#8217;ve ended up with almost more food after the event than we had before, despite everyone eating a fair amount.<\/p>\n<p>We struggled to locate sparklers for the event.  Several shop assistants didn&#8217;t even know what a sparkler was, never mind whether they happened to stock them.  Shana eventually located some in a bargain shop and a dollar store.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are other techniques that I could have used for photographing sparklers, but I didn&#8217;t have time to experiment much, so I used a 5s exposure and a tripod to produce some fun photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has felt like a long weekend, with Canada Day on Thursday, and a very quiet work day on Friday. Today we held a small gathering for those wanting to celebrate American independence day. We&#8217;ve ended up with almost more food after the event than we had before, despite everyone eating a fair amount. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}