{"id":2179,"date":"2010-07-04T20:55:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T00:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2010-07-04T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T00:55:36","slug":"happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sticking pretty tightly to all comics-related posts of late, but given that it’s the 4th of July, I’ll let that slide:\u00a0 Happy Independence Day, all!<\/strong><\/p>\n

We spent the morning of this fourth of July at our neighborhood “parade,” which might be more accurately described as, “flag- and crepe paper-encrusted kids, dogs and bikes travelling around the block several times while someone plays Sousa marches on a boombox.”\u00a0 It’s great fun.\u00a0 We get the streets blocked off, do a pot luck\/grill-out for the whole neighborhood, and arrange for the local firehouse to send an engine over (in exchange for a go at the potluck table, of course).\u00a0 Here’s my daughter in her patriotic regalia:<\/p>\n

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In the evening we finished off the day in typical American fashion for the fourth: grilling.\u00a0 Here’s an obscenely loaded dinner plate featuring lots o’ grilled stuff: grilled tuna steaks and sea scallops topped with salsa made from a friend’s garden tomatoes, grilled vegetables and corn, and a ripe avocado.<\/p>\n

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Livin’ large in the USA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sticking pretty tightly to all comics-related posts of late, but given that it’s the 4th of July, I’ll let that slide:\u00a0 Happy Independence Day, all! We spent the morning of this fourth of July at our neighborhood “parade,” which might be more accurately described as, “flag- and crepe paper-encrusted kids, dogs and bikes … <\/p>\n

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