{"id":3602,"date":"2015-11-08T10:22:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T17:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2015-11-08T12:19:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T19:19:01","slug":"remember-remember-the-fifth-of-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"Remember, Remember the Fifth of November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In England, we still celebrate the foiling of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gunpowder_Plot\" target=\"_blank\">Gunpowder Plot<\/a>\u00a0in 1605 by burning the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Fawkes\" target=\"_blank\">Guy<\/a>\u00a0on a bonfire. Along with this, fireworks are let off and sparklers are held.\u00a0The celebrations are pretty tame with the notable exception of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewes_Bonfire\" target=\"_blank\">Lewes Bonfire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spaldinghigh.lincs.sch.uk\/newspaper\/media\/bonfire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical Bonfire Night Celebration<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ea\/Lewes_Bonfire,_Martyrs_Crosses_02_detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"351\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lewes Bonfire Night Celebration<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apart from some interest in the 2005 film, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/V_for_Vendetta_(film)\" target=\"_blank\">V for Vendetta<\/a>, the United States no longer takes an interest in\u00a0this event so I thought we would do something to mark the occasion. We didn&#8217;t have a bonfire but we set off some fireworks in the streets of Wisconsin to the bemusement of the neighbours. Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_49035\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUhlkOMw2IQ?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3606\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bu-euSoWLI9gcWeP8-pT5Yn9ssns2JcgnWtprmmjEI0Hy355x4Zx150odBSeFe9JnI2XqvIOWePY03yn9b93zw.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3606\" class=\"wp-image-3606 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bu-euSoWLI9gcWeP8-pT5Yn9ssns2JcgnWtprmmjEI0Hy355x4Zx150odBSeFe9JnI2XqvIOWePY03yn9b93zw-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Bu-euSoWLI9gcWeP8-pT5Yn9ssns2JcgnWtprmmjEI0,Hy355x4Zx150odBSeFe9JnI2XqvIOWePY03yn9b93zw\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bu-euSoWLI9gcWeP8-pT5Yn9ssns2JcgnWtprmmjEI0Hy355x4Zx150odBSeFe9JnI2XqvIOWePY03yn9b93zw-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bu-euSoWLI9gcWeP8-pT5Yn9ssns2JcgnWtprmmjEI0Hy355x4Zx150odBSeFe9JnI2XqvIOWePY03yn9b93zw-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bu-euSoWLI9gcWeP8-pT5Yn9ssns2JcgnWtprmmjEI0Hy355x4Zx150odBSeFe9JnI2XqvIOWePY03yn9b93zw.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Small firework in quiet Midwestern street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3605\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AxSsYev2HOEB3YCe8rl1VOrU8U1hJgN9heDOcuxvYs4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3605\" class=\"wp-image-3605 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AxSsYev2HOEB3YCe8rl1VOrU8U1hJgN9heDOcuxvYs4-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"AxSsYev2HOEB3YCe8rl1VOrU8U1hJgN9heDOcuxvYs4\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AxSsYev2HOEB3YCe8rl1VOrU8U1hJgN9heDOcuxvYs4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AxSsYev2HOEB3YCe8rl1VOrU8U1hJgN9heDOcuxvYs4-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/AxSsYev2HOEB3YCe8rl1VOrU8U1hJgN9heDOcuxvYs4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Bonfire Night!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In England, we still celebrate the foiling of the\u00a0Gunpowder Plot\u00a0in 1605 by burning the Guy\u00a0on a bonfire. Along with this, fireworks are let off and sparklers are held.\u00a0The celebrations are pretty tame with the notable exception of the Lewes Bonfire:&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onalaska","category-video","category-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}