{"id":418,"date":"2011-07-04T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T23:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=418"},"modified":"2011-07-04T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T23:02:32","slug":"happy-fourth-ya-hoser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth, Hoser"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went to the Corrales 4th of July parade again this year (an annual tradition for us, it appears). As always, many of the vehicles in the parade were full of pranksters brandishing water guns. Frankly, it’s great for a 90\u00b0+ summer day.<\/p>\n

This year, we ended up watching in front of a guy’s house who had a genius idea. He pulled out his water hose, stretched it to the street, turned it on, and waited. He waited (with the hose cinched to cut the water flow) until they arrived. And they did. And it was wickedly wet. We laughed. Everyone laughed. The paraders got some medicine.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Brilliant.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We went to the Corrales 4th of July parade again this year (an annual tradition for us, it appears). As always, many of the vehicles in the parade were full of pranksters brandishing water guns. Frankly, it’s great for a 90\u00b0+ summer day. This year, we ended up watching in front of a guy’s house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2toiQ-6K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1004,"url":"http:\/\/efoxley.com\/dope\/?p=1004","url_meta":{"origin":418,"position":0},"title":"Just Lock the Door, yo.","author":"admin","date":"0909.2222.1414","format":false,"excerpt":"So the White House had a security breach the other day, where a guy jumped the perimeter fence and made it all the way into the front door. 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