{"id":603,"date":"2013-06-16T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/?p=603"},"modified":"2013-06-16T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T16:28:44","slug":"dont-rain-on-my-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/2013\/06\/dont-rain-on-my-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Rain on my Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rock County, Nebraska is celebrating its Quasquicentennial (125 years) June 13-16, 2013. One of the highlights of the festivities was the “125 Years of Sandhills Heritage” parade on Saturday. <\/p>\n

\"Airplane
\nThe parade was started by an flyover by a local cropduster. Word on the street was that he was applying an arial topdressing of superphosphate mixed with a medium 25-47 dose of mosquito repellant. Whatever the actual concoction, it seemed to work well: the parade immediately showed more hardy vigor and had a brighter sheen.<\/p>\n

\"cropduster\"<\/p>\n

\"American<\/p>\n

\"American<\/p>\n

\"Watching<\/p>\n

\"Boy
\nCub Scouts & Boy Scouts serving as color guard<\/p>\n

\"Al\"
\nThere were numerous floats, including a number for the classes celebrating reunions at the event. Here is Al Armstrong who went on to win audience favorite at the mustache and beard-growing contest. Note Al’s duck dynasty t-shirt, which is actually a self-portrait.<\/p>\n

\"Teresa
\nTeresa & Jacie B.<\/p>\n

\"Float
\nThis float won “most creative” by a huge margin in audience voting.<\/p>\n

\"Firetrucks\"<\/p>\n

\"Watching<\/p>\n

\"Ass
\nFollowing their appearance in the parade, the “Class of 83” broke ranks and re-entered the parade as the “Class of 38”. Following this appearance, they broke ranks again only to re-enter the route again, this time as the “Ass of 38”.<\/p>\n

\"Chris
\nChris B.<\/p>\n

\"Windmills\"<\/p>\n

\"American
\nJen, Cheryl and Bernie decorated one of the American Broadband (nee Huntel) trucks with several cable spools made up to look like a birthday cake. <\/p>\n

\"American<\/p>\n

\"Maddie
\nMadeline got to ride in the parade with Grandpa Bernie and Jen. She had a ball seeing all the parade watchers and handing out candy.<\/p>\n

\"Maddie<\/p>\n

\"Madeline
\nMadeline with Aunt Taylor<\/p>\n

\"Bernie
\nGrandpa Bernie & his sister Shirley B.<\/p>\n

\"Maddie,
\nMaddie, Grandma Cheryl, & Jen<\/p>\n

\"Grandma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rock County, Nebraska is celebrating its Quasquicentennial (125 years) June 13-16, 2013. One of the highlights of the festivities was the “125 Years of Sandhills Heritage” parade on Saturday. The parade was started by an flyover by a local cropduster. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/davidcox.org\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}