{"id":641,"date":"2009-06-28T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T20:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=641"},"modified":"2009-06-28T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T20:39:38","slug":"4th-of-july-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/06\/28\/4th-of-july-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July Fireworks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t be in Boston for the fireworks show on July 4th. But if you show up at the last minute to see the fireworks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.july4th.org\/concert.htm\">they start at 10.30pm<\/a>, you can head onto to <a title=\"Harvard Bridge AKA Mass Ave Bridge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvard_Bridge\">Harvard Bridge<\/a>, commonly know as Mass Ave Bridge and get some decent view of the fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I watched the fireworks from the bridge was in 2007, and I was near the middle at the 200 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smoot\">smoot<\/a> mark:<br \/>\n<a title=\"200 Smoots! by bettlebrox, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/722118659\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1055\/722118659_11c2db810a.jpg\" alt=\"200 Smoots!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The views of the fireworks was quite good, not as good as being on the river banks. Considering you could show up 5 minutes before the start of the display instead of 12 hours before is a good tradeoff in viewing quality. \ud83d\ude42<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Boston 4th of July fireworks. by bettlebrox, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/722809404\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1371\/722809404_01f0ffe1a5.jpg\" alt=\"Boston 4th of July fireworks.\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the finale:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Boston 4th July Fireworks by bettlebrox, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/722069023\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1215\/722069023_283003c9bc.jpg\" alt=\"Boston 4th July Fireworks\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, like last year, I&#8217;ll be up in the Adirondacks where the fireworks aren&#8217;t quite as spectacular, but still has it&#8217;s own charm and a sense of tranquility that you don&#8217;t get in the city. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"4th of July by bettlebrox, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2678464031\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/2678464031_680969cec3.jpg\" alt=\"4th of July\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fireworks on the Lake by bettlebrox, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/timony\/2683256179\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3275\/2683256179_0a45c38d5e.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks on the Lake\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t be in Boston for the fireworks show on July 4th. But if you show up at the last minute to see the fireworks, they start at 10.30pm, you can head onto to Harvard Bridge, commonly know as Mass Ave Bridge and get some decent view of the fireworks. The last time I watched &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/06\/28\/4th-of-july-fireworks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">4th of July Fireworks!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,10,29],"tags":[130,150,257,313,339,363,404,484,553,569],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adriondack","category-boston","category-cambridge","category-flickr","category-photo","tag-boston","tag-canda-lake","tag-fireworks","tag-harvard-bridge","tag-independence-day","tag-july-4th","tag-mass-ave-bridge","tag-pics","tag-smoot","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}