{"id":12597,"date":"2011-07-04T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12597"},"modified":"2011-07-04T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:14:07","slug":"happy-independents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12597\/happy-independents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independent&#8217;s Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kicking this back to the top. Happy Independence Day! &#8212; GSS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>Our wedding anniversary today. I&#8217;ve always thought that the best way to celebrate the things that really matter in life is to <em>do<\/em> the things that really matter in life, so I&#8217;m spending the afternoon and evening with my best-beloved, but I have a home inspection to attend to this morning. To work is to live, and, in Phoenix or in Las Vegas, we&#8217;ve always worked on our anniversary. On top of everything else, it&#8217;s a symbol of who we are together, why we work so well together.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here is my favorite Independence Day clip, the fireworks scene from <em>Moscow on the Hudson:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"289\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZL-Up0ej8Vo&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicking this back to the top. Happy Independence Day! &#8212; GSS &nbsp;Our wedding anniversary today. I&#8217;ve always thought that the best way to celebrate the things that really matter in life is to do the things that really matter in life, so I&#8217;m spending the afternoon and evening with my best-beloved, but I have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18280,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18280\/overnight-news-celebrate-your-independence-because-it-has-no-contrary\/","url_meta":{"origin":12597,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Celebrate your independence \u2013 because it has no\u00a0contrary.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"It's almost Independence Day \u2013 our wedding anniversary \u2013 and this is definitely the year to celebrate the independence of the fee simple domicile. I'll get to that on Sunday. For now let's address something more-fundamental: You should celebrate, embrace, enfold and exalt your independence \u2013 because there is no\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Group Therapy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Group Therapy","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/group-therapy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ya think it's easy?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14740,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14740\/happy-4th-of-july-fellow-independence-seekers\/","url_meta":{"origin":12597,"position":1},"title":"Happy 4th. of July fellow independence seekers","author":"Scott Cowan","date":"July 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"On this day of celebration of our nations independence I think it is only right that we take a few moments to think of our own personal independence. 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