{"id":55,"date":"2009-07-05T14:23:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewhuynh.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-07-05T14:32:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T18:32:40","slug":"post-4th-of-july-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/05\/post-4th-of-july-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Post 4th of July Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>last night was pretty fun. i don&#8217;t drink often so it&#8217;s fun to let go sometimes. hanging with friends &#8211; meeting new people &#8211; playing some competitive beirut &#8211; setting off fireworks and running from cops. this type of partying&#8230; it&#8217;s fun. it makes me think about how long this can last. once you grow up, you can&#8217;t do this type of shit anymore. when you&#8217;re 40, there&#8217;s no more ragers. it&#8217;s just not your thing. but i suppose by the time you get to that age, your tastes in entertainment and views on life would have changed yet again. 40 years old&#8230; that&#8217;s double my current age. life would be quite different. i guess i would go to work&#8230; come home to my kids and wife&#8230; grab a beer&#8230; surf some internet on my quantum computer and huge monitor&#8230; well, i suppose not much will change then :)<\/p>\n<p>well, it&#8217;s sunday. the weather&#8217;s nice. i&#8217;m going to go find something fun to do&#8230; i have all day tomorrow to sit in front of a computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>last night was pretty fun. i don&#8217;t drink often so it&#8217;s fun to let go sometimes. hanging with friends &#8211; meeting new people &#8211; playing some competitive beirut &#8211; setting off fireworks and running from cops. this type of partying&#8230; it&#8217;s fun. it makes me think about how long this can last. once you grow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/05\/post-4th-of-july-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Post 4th of July Thoughts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,28,30,23],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings","tag-beirut","tag-fireworks","tag-future","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matthewhuynh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}