{"id":4361,"date":"2026-07-05T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:40:38","slug":"maine-on-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2026\/07\/05\/maine-on-the-fourth-of-july","title":{"rendered":"Maine on the Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whiskey hates fireworks and I love lobsters, so we headed north for the fourth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hipcamp.com\/en-US\/land\/maine-harborside-eco-cabin-qeoh99k0\">an awesome cabin<\/a> last-minute on Hipcamp, surrounded by a field of wildflowers. We got a good show of fireflies at night, and even decent aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jlevinger\/55378282746\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55378282746_3596383883_z.jpg\" alt=\"Fireflies and Wildflowers\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fireflies and Wildflowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div style=\"top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\">\t\t\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fourth of July Aurora in Maine\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"  src=\"https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/photos\/55377472392\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Fourth of July Aurora in Maine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We beat the heat by swimming in the ocean, and Ruth did some painting <em>en plein air<\/em>. She also showed us grounds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haystack-mtn.org\">Haystack Mountain School<\/a> where she spent two weeks doing pottery a few years ago. It seems great, and maybe I&#8217;ll get the chance to do a workshop someday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiskey hates fireworks and I love lobsters, so we headed north for the fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-maine"],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4364,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}