{"id":8620,"date":"2020-07-28T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2024-06-05T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:24:33","slug":"road-trip-day-9-buena-vista-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2020\/07\/28\/road-trip-day-9-buena-vista-fireworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip Day 9: Buena Vista Fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you think that no summer trip to Leadville would be complete without a charming small-town Fourth of July parade (see installments from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157627124688560\/show\/\">2011<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jnack\/sets\/72157630423591624\/show\/\">2012<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/photos.google.com\/share\/AF1QipMNCQ-7bJx_9_oKIqHj4qHoGp6TRsjtkJsg4fQFpH2cxNTC7ad8RKjj14nzI2wQOw?key=V1RFUXFDaDVzX2NyM2dSb2hENnVzVGp1a3lCeHFn\">2018<\/a>)&#8230; well, sadly you&#8217;d be correct. Social distancing this year meant no downtown fire trucks, burros, and hailstorms of hard candy\u2014but that didn&#8217;t mean we couldn&#8217;t have fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With fireworks also being cancelled, we trundled down the mountain to nearby Buena Vista, where we met up with the Wiggii and set up shop in the Westy alongside a neighboring pop-top VDub. Its owner was a nice lady whose career as a Southwest pilot was on hold, so she &amp; her son had come up to enjoy BV. The dudes whipped glow sticks through the air with Charlie while the grownups knocked back a few beverages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ZDhJhcTc5QGZbnbV9\">Here&#8217;s a little gallery<\/a> showing the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ZDhJhcTc5QGZbnbV9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW1-1024x264.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW1-1024x264.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW1-300x77.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW1-768x198.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW1.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/ZDhJhcTc5QGZbnbV9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"535\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW2-1024x535.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW2-1024x535.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW2-300x157.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW2-768x401.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/FW2.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you think that no summer trip to Leadville would be complete without a charming small-town Fourth of July parade (see installments from 2011, 2012, and 2018)&#8230; well, sadly you&#8217;d be correct. Social distancing this year meant no downtown fire trucks, burros, and hailstorms of hard candy\u2014but that didn&#8217;t mean we couldn&#8217;t have fun. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-2020","category-photos","category-westy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8868,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8620\/revisions\/8868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}