{"id":6418,"date":"2015-07-05T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2015-07-05T08:58:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:58:21","slug":"flash-copters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/flash-copters\/","title":{"rendered":"flash copters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we happen to be home on the 4th of July, we hike along the street to the houseless hillside on that street that affords a panoramic view of the city&#8212;and the downtown fireworks display, which is quite something.<\/p>\n<p>We are not alone in this. The police block the street, and a crowd of a hundred or more people turns up with lawnchairs.<\/p>\n<p>Our skating coach lives at the prime address for viewing same, so we join her and her husband for a nice lawn-sit and a glass of wine in one of the best spots in the city, unless you want to stand on the bridge in the park and have them go off overhead.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this year the kids in the crowd, and some of the adults, came armed with these wonderful glowing devices: you fire them with a rubber band, and they go high, high up, spread their wings and come down like little helicopters, right to the shooter, even if the shot was off vertical. They&#8217;re cold LED light, leave no debris, make no noise, and they&#8217;re absolutely wonderful reshootable little gadgets. <\/p>\n<p>The crowd had almost as much fun with those as with the firework display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we happen to be home on the 4th of July, we hike along the street to the houseless hillside on that street that affords a panoramic view of the city&#8212;and the downtown fireworks display, which is quite something. We are not alone in this. The police block the street, and a crowd of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6420,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}