{"id":345,"date":"2006-05-30T03:23:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T08:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=345"},"modified":"2006-05-30T03:24:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T08:24:42","slug":"memorial-day-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/05\/30\/memorial-day-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/156268319\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/57\/156268319_d2f4c7e2c5_m.jpg?resize=111%2C240\" width=\"111\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Memorial Day, 2006\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday (it&#8217;s a wee bit past midnight) was Memorial Day here in the States.  In honor of the event they had a large array of flags out at the local cemetery.  I spent several minutes taking pictures of said flags in various ways, and through some strange and tortuous route I ended up here (among other places &#8211; I&#8217;m still working through them all).<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say that these things are never so simple.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, thanks to all those who have served.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, I still owe you all the story of the spontaneous generation of a toad in our compost &#8211; hang in there!<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday (it&#8217;s a wee bit past midnight) was Memorial Day here in the States. In honor of the event they had a large array of flags out at the local cemetery. I spent several minutes taking pictures of said flags in various ways, and through some strange and tortuous route I ended up here (among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/05\/30\/memorial-day-2006\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memorial Day, 2006&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-5z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":432,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/30\/a-far-better-use-of-little-flags\/","url_meta":{"origin":345,"position":0},"title":"A far better use of little flags","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Jan 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in September I had a good moan about some students here sticking a bunch of American flags in the ground to commorate September 11th, 2001. 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