{"id":331,"date":"2010-08-09T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-08-09T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T16:33:00","slug":"vj-day-in-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"VJ DAY in Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGArmwVBsTI\/AAAAAAAAChY\/0wce82xso4E\/s1600\/scarbourough2864.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGArmwVBsTI\/AAAAAAAAChY\/0wce82xso4E\/s320\/scarbourough2864.jpg\" width=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGAruZq9ANI\/AAAAAAAAChg\/bv9vmMGljk0\/s1600\/scarbourough13875.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"204\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGAruZq9ANI\/AAAAAAAAChg\/bv9vmMGljk0\/s320\/scarbourough13875.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGArqLUCN7I\/AAAAAAAAChc\/GWZrmJI3Qsg\/s1600\/scarbourough8870.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGAr1gVmARI\/AAAAAAAAChk\/HxB2iRjEA34\/s1600\/scarbourough9871.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGAr1gVmARI\/AAAAAAAAChk\/HxB2iRjEA34\/s320\/scarbourough9871.jpg\" width=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGArqLUCN7I\/AAAAAAAAChc\/GWZrmJI3Qsg\/s1600\/scarbourough8870.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"210\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGArqLUCN7I\/AAAAAAAAChc\/GWZrmJI3Qsg\/s320\/scarbourough8870.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGAr6vYY1HI\/AAAAAAAACho\/_-V9tK4jRmE\/s1600\/scarbourough14876.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"207\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_jTb_cRUMExg\/TGAr6vYY1HI\/AAAAAAAACho\/_-V9tK4jRmE\/s320\/scarbourough14876.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today is VJ Day in Rhode Island (victory over Japan) Rhode Island is the last state in the union to celebrate such a holiday. I must assume that this is one of the more politically incorrect holidays to still exist.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;I have the hope that the real reason for observing this holiday is exactly that observing a holiday. I believe that today the beaches in Rhode Island are free and packed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is VJ Day in Rhode Island (victory over Japan) Rhode Island is the last state in the union to celebrate such a holiday. I must assume that this is one of the more politically incorrect holidays to still exist.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;I have the hope that the real reason for observing this holiday is exactly that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VJ DAY in Rhode Island<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404,403],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarborough-beach","category-vj-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}