{"id":456,"date":"2009-06-09T08:09:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T12:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=456"},"modified":"2010-12-12T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T19:10:16","slug":"belated-patriots-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/belated-patriots-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Patriot’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned a couple of posts back, I’m a wee bit stressed at work right now, what with catching up from being sick and visiting the school to promote summer reading and doing all those last minute summer reading preparation things.\u00a0 So I’m giving my poor brain a rest from work issues when writing on my blog until things settle down a bit.\u00a0 With that in mind, here’s a photo from this year’s Patriot’s Day parade on April 20.\u00a0 Last year I posted a photo that Dad titled “Bad Horse,” of a Concord Independent Battery horse getting frisky and a bit out of control coming down Main Street.\u00a0 This year’s horse photo is of one of the CIB horses freaking out back at the start of the parade at the beginning of Lowell Road.\u00a0 Dad and I were in a prime spot to see the action (on the steps of the Christian Science church) and snapped some good photos.\u00a0 It was a cold morning, and the other CIB horses looked calm, cool, and collected.\u00a0 This horse was lathered in sweat, steaming with its own heat, and clearly undone by the crowds of people on either side of it.\u00a0 After a few tense minutes of trying to calm the horse (including getting idiotic curious bystanders to back off<\/em>\u00a0 and give it space), the CIB men decided to loop this horse and its wagon around Monument Square and back to the Armory.\u00a0 We didn’t see the horse in the parade again that day.\u00a0 (Click on photo to enlarge.)<\/p>\n

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As I mentioned a couple of posts back, I’m a wee bit stressed at work right now, what with catching up from being sick and visiting the school to promote summer reading and doing all those last minute summer reading preparation things.\u00a0 So I’m giving my poor brain a rest from work issues when writing … Continue reading Belated Patriot’s Day<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats-dogs-plants-animals","category-spare-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}