{"id":505,"date":"2010-07-06T19:57:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T02:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-04-08T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T04:11:50","slug":"embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/06\/embarrassing\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was visiting England over the Fourth of July many, many years ago, a British radio announcer interviewed visiting Americans to ask what the Fourth of July celebrated. I missed the interview, but the host at the bed and breakfast I was staying in at Drumnadrochit by Loch Ness<\/a> asked me the next morning. I’m embarrassed to say it took me about thirty seconds to say … “the signing of the Declaration of Independence<\/a>“. As it turns out, I did far better than the average tourist.<\/p>\n

Well, uh, umpteen years later, things aren’t any better … even in our homeland. \u00a0From Jay Leno’s 4th of July episode of\u00a0Jaywalking<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As a friend said, scary stuff.<\/p>\n

I was sitting on my porch while my wife was rooting succulents and when she heard the video play she said “uh uh!” and ran over to watch. I think we got all of the questions except the Minutemen<\/a>, and our “guess” (that they were an elite group of colonial soldiers who were our first line of defense against the British, essentially Revolutionary War special forces<\/a>) was apparently spot on.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, all we had to say was: “Go Grandpa!”<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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