{"id":385,"date":"2015-07-03T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/03\/july-4-2\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T18:47:00","slug":"july-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/july-4-2.html","title":{"rendered":"July 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nHappy Birthday to us<\/div>\n
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\nThis holiday evokes fond memories for most Americans.  I grew up in a small town and on July 4 the
\ntown sponsored a parade featuring (usually in this order) the high school band
\nin uniform, Boy and Girl Scouts in uniform, veterans in various uniforms of
\ntheir branch of service, old men driving old vintage cars, and children of all
\nages on bicycles decorated with crepe paper and flags.  This procession would wind around the
\nstreets before finally stopping at the town cemetery.  At this point a senior from the high school would read the
\nDeclaration of Independence, then came the Pledge of Allegiance.  After all this celebration everyone would
\nhead home to prepare their  4th<\/sup>
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\nHere, in Santa Fe the day begins with Pancakes on the Plaza
\nwith patriotic songs rendered by the Community Concert Band.  Thousands of Santa Feans (and tourists) walk
\nthrough downtown with small flags visiting craft vendors and inspecting the
\nvintage cars display.  Then everyone
\nheads for home to light up their BBQs. 
\nI might suggest someone reads aloud from such papers as the Preamble of
\nthe Constitution or the Emancipation Proclamation.  Very powerful words we might reflect upon. <\/div>\n
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\nThe textile du jour for this day is, of course, our
\nflag.  It is seen everywhere in sizes
\nfrom miniature to the huge one flying over used car lots and fast food
\nrestaurants.  They are seen on tee
\nshirts and ball caps, on napkins and paper picnic ware.  There are other textiles created to honor
\nour history.  Some are sentimental, some
\nare political, some bring a smile and some not so much.<\/div>\n
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\nThis textile is a panel measuring 43×23 inches depicting
\nGeorge Washington crossing the Delaware.<\/span> 
\n<\/span>The colors are startling with vivid reds, blues and gold. The fabric is
\ntextured reminiscent of \u201cbark cloth\u201d (the fabric your grandma used to cover her
\npatio furniture or perhaps used a draperies). This was produced by the Reliable
\nTextile Company of NY under the trademark Wesco-Relex . Other subjects for
\nsimilar textiles were patriotic motifs such as the bald eagle and, in a quite
\ndifferent vein, depictions of puppies and other cute animals. Supposedly, these
\npanels were meant to be hung as panels or framed. What in the world could they
\nhave been thinking? Which brings me to a dilemma.<\/span>  <\/span>What in the world am I going to do with it?<\/span>  <\/span>Would you believe I have two Geo.W, and<\/span>  <\/span>friends panels.<\/span>  <\/span>Well, back to the bottom of my collection, I guess. Maybe someone
\nmight want to add them to their collection of patriotic memorabilia, hmmm?<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nHappy Birthday America<\/div>\n
\nHappy Birthday to us                                                                                        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Birthday to us This holiday evokes fond memories for most Americans.  I grew up in a small town and on July 4 the town sponsored a parade featuring (usually in this order) the high school band in uniform, Boy and Girl Scouts in uniform, veterans in various uniforms of their branch of service, old…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}