{"id":4939,"date":"2009-07-09T18:38:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2009-07-09T18:40:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T01:40:05","slug":"bang-with-no-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/bang-with-no-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Bang with no boom."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>View of downtown New Orleans from the rooftop of Tulane&#8217;s 6-story parking garage.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4936\" title=\"fireworks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The view of downtown New Orleans, with Fourth of July fireworks silently exploding in the distance.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two sets of fireworks because the celebration here has &#8220;dueling barges&#8221; sending off pyrotechnics from the river.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4937\" title=\"fireworks-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All in all, an easy way to see fireworks with no crowds.\u00c2\u00a0 Drunk college kids arrived part-way through (note to Tulane: install a sobriety check-point directly at the exit of the garage at 9pm on the Fourth) but the roof area is large enough for them to be only a minor annoyance&#8230; in the sense that we can&#8217;t help but look at ourselves and go, &#8220;my goodness, were we that self-absorbed and clueless when we were that age?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a sign that we&#8217;re old.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a sign that we&#8217;re simply mature.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4938\" title=\"fireworks-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks-2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/fireworks-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View of downtown New Orleans from the rooftop of Tulane&#8217;s 6-story parking garage. The view of downtown New Orleans, with Fourth of July fireworks silently exploding in the distance.\u00c2\u00a0 There are two sets of fireworks because the celebration here has &#8220;dueling barges&#8221; sending off pyrotechnics from the river. All in all, an easy way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,100],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4941,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/4941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}