{"id":1187,"date":"2010-07-05T12:39:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T17:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deepsicks.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2022-04-15T21:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T02:26:40","slug":"sparkler-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2010\/07\/05\/sparkler-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"sparkler lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demographics in the West Fargo, North Dakota, neighborhood where I grew up have changed, but not the kids. Not one bit, howling as the fuse gets lit, stomping on the spend-but-still-spinning Ground Bloom Flowers, daring scrambling closer shouting <em>this one this one this one next!<\/em> dropping the kamikaze killer bees into my cupped palm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nor has my mom moved from the eighties in her loud yellow Black Cat tee, handing out sparklers with a string of <em>Be Carefuls<\/em>, the eye of the gimme-gimme wriggling storm. Chain-lighting sparklers while Mom held back the toddlers, I burned only one boy, careening into my punk in the melee, the chaos of America chorus of shrieks, singeing his arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I blew on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_4458-1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_4458-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_4458-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_4458-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_4458-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chain-lighting sparklers while Mom held back the toddlers, I burned only one boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,22,23,25],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-family","tag-holledays","tag-home","tag-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8057,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/8057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}