{"id":23561,"date":"2022-07-03T01:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T09:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=23561"},"modified":"2023-01-16T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T13:50:12","slug":"23561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=23561","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randy_wells_rushmore_60608pS-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randy_wells_rushmore_60608pS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"577\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randy_wells_rushmore_60608pS-1.jpg 577w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randy_wells_rushmore_60608pS-1-330x229.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randy_wells_rushmore_60608pS-1-150x104.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 577px) 85vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE 4TH OF JULY <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems the 4th of July means something different every year. <\/p>\n<p>For me, what I feel is sadness. At the same time, I&#8217;m grateful that I experienced the best of the &#8217;70s, &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. It was a wonderful time to be young in America. <\/p>\n<p>I made this image of Mt. Rushmore from a low-flying helicopter in the &#8217;80s. I probably wouldn&#8217;t be allowed to do it today. Not sure I&#8217;d want to.<\/p>\n<p>The image below is one I made last month.  <\/p>\n<p>Think deeper. Be safe. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randywells-S20220617_063851p2final-sq-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randywells-S20220617_063851p2final-sq-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randywells-S20220617_063851p2final-sq-1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randywells-S20220617_063851p2final-sq-1-330x282.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/randywells-S20220617_063851p2final-sq-1-150x128.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 85vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE 4TH OF JULY It seems the 4th of July means something different every year. For me, what I feel is sadness. At the same time, I&#8217;m grateful that I experienced the best of the &#8217;70s, &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s. It was a wonderful time to be young in America. I made this image of Mt. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=23561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23561"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25495,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23561\/revisions\/25495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}