{"id":312194,"date":"2016-07-04T07:19:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=312194"},"modified":"2016-07-04T07:19:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:19:33","slug":"fireworks-franks-festivities-americans-mark-july-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=312194","title":{"rendered":"Fireworks, franks, festivities: Americans mark July Fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/fireworks-franks-festivities-americans-mark-july-fourth\/15826606\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/2016\/07\/01\/15821224\/15821273-1467630907-160x120.jpg\" alt=\"HOT DOG MYTH\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>From fireworks soaring above the Washington Monument to hot dogs being downed in New York City&#8217;s famed frank-eating contest, Americans aren&#8217;t shy about celebrating their nation&#8217;s birthday. Many places are rolling out long-established Independence Day traditions on Monday (even if some of those traditions aren&#8217;t as long-established as they sound). Some communities are trying new things to mark the holiday, even as others are paring back. Some Fourth of July highlights from around the country: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/fireworks-franks-festivities-americans-mark-july-fourth\/15826606\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/fireworks-franks-festivities-americans-mark-july-fourth\/15826606\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Fireworks, franks, festivities: Americans mark July Fourth\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From fireworks soaring above the Washington Monument to hot dogs being downed in New York City&#8217;s famed frank-eating contest, Americans aren&#8217;t shy about celebrating their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}