{"id":38795556,"date":"2005-07-05T04:39:19","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T04:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2005\/07\/4th-of-july.html"},"modified":"2013-04-11T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:46:07","slug":"2005074th-of-july-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2005\/07\/05\/2005074th-of-july-html\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\">\n<div class='p_embed p_image_embed'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Media_httpphotos17fli_cgfeh\" height=\"180\" src=\"http:\/\/cmcimport.files.wordpress.com\/2005\/07\/media_httpphotos17fli_cgfeh-scaled500.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/div>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size:.9em;margin-top:0;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chriscasey\/23535223\/\">With Tim Kaine<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>I love the 4th of July.  I love the way that it reminds us about how our country was founded, and the Democratic principles it was founded upon.  I find it very appropriate that the 4th of July should be a holiday mixed with politics, as it encourages participation in our government.  This year my kids and I once again marched with local Democrats in the Dale City Virginia 4th of July Parade.<\/p>\n<p>We were there to march in support of <a href=\"http:\/\/hildabarg.com\/\">Hilda Barg<\/a>, our local candidate for Delegate.  But it turned out that Dale City&#8217;s parade was THE place to be for candidates from both sides.  Both the Democratic and Republican tickets for Governor and Lt. Governor were in the parade.  Virginia is a large state.  That they all chose Prince William County as the place to start their 4th of July is something I take as a telling sign of them importance of winning here in November is to the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>Recently I have a much greater appreciation of the importance of being involved locally.  In college I studied International Relations, and most of my previous campaign work has been at the national or statewide level.  But as I have gotten older, I have felt a need to look more closely at my own state, local and neighborhood governments, and to get involved where I can.  The 4th of July reminds us why.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Tim Kaine I love the 4th of July. I love the way that it reminds us about how our country was founded, and the Democratic principles it was founded upon. I find it very appropriate that the 4th of July should be a holiday mixed with politics,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38795556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidetolife","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMuM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38795556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354531,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38795556\/revisions\/173354531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38795556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38795556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38795556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}