{"id":764,"date":"2008-01-01T16:27:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T16:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/01\/explosions-for-the-new-year\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T16:27:26","slug":"explosions-for-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/01\/explosions-for-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions (For the new year)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/2153337293\/\" title=\"Explosions (For the new year) by Unhindered by Talent, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2369\/2153337293_6570aaa21c.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"Explosions (For the new year)\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We watched the New Year&#8217;s fireworks from London on the telly last night, and that was one remarkable display of blowing stuff up.  At the time it kept reminding me of the blitz in creepy ways, and later I kept thinking about places like Kenya and Pakistan where people are burning things out of anger rather than for fun.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping that more explosions can be &#8220;in fun&#8221; than &#8220;in anger&#8221; in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is another from the 4th of July display in Monticello, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\t<div class=\"st-post-tags \">\n\tTags: <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/fireworks\/\" title=\"fireworks\">fireworks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/holidays\/\" title=\"holidays\">holidays<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/my-photography\/\" title=\"my photography\">my photography<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/new-years\/\" title=\"New Years\">New Years<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/tag\/world-peace\/\" title=\"world peace\">world peace<\/a><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/19\/the-night-blooms-with-fire\/\" title=\"The night blooms with fire (19 Nov 07)\">The night blooms with fire<\/a> (0)<\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/20\/new-ways-to-bore-you-with-our-holiday-photos\/\" title=\"New ways to bore you with our holiday photos (20 Jan 08)\">New ways to bore you with our holiday photos<\/a> (1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched the New Year&#8217;s fireworks from London on the telly last night, and that was one remarkable display of blowing stuff up. At the time it kept reminding me of the blitz in creepy ways, and later I kept thinking about places like Kenya and Pakistan where people are burning things out of anger &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/01\/01\/explosions-for-the-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Explosions (For the new year)&#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":[11,25,20],"tags":[85,122,65,201,202],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-ck","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":687,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/11\/19\/the-night-blooms-with-fire\/","url_meta":{"origin":764,"position":0},"title":"The night blooms with fire","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"19 Nov 07","format":false,"excerpt":"All the Guy Fawkes fireworks around here got me digging back into some old photos that I'd never done anything with from the 4th of July in Monticello, Wisconsin. 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