{"id":7268,"date":"2017-07-05T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2017-07-05T14:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:44:44","slug":"enjoy-park-citys-4th-july-parade-activities-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/05\/enjoy-park-citys-4th-july-parade-activities-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you enjoy Park City&#8217;s 4th of July Parade and and activities yesterday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Kondo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2017\/jan\/14\/how-to-declutter-your-life-marie-kondo-spark-joy\">specializes<\/a>\u00a0in helping people remove clutter from their lives. One of the questions she asks when helping people decide what to keep around is, &#8220;Does it spark joy in your life?&#8221; If not, you get rid of it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll assume like many Parkites, you attended Park City&#8217;s 4th of July parade on Tuesday. \u00a0Did it spark joy in your life?<\/p>\n<p>That may be a little bit extreme. \u00a0The parade and associated festivities are SOMETHING TO DO. Unless you are Mayor Jack Thomas, at the center of attention, riding your bike down Main, it&#8217;s probably more of something to do than something that <em>sparks joy<\/em> (to be fair, Mayor Thomas probably doesn&#8217;t like it <em>that<\/em> much).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>We gazed upon the throngs of people who crowded, sitting under a tent on the baseball diamond, to eat their BBQ. There couldn&#8217;t have been more than a few inches separating each person in 90 degree heat.<\/p>\n<p>We watched as people walked across the Rugby field, oblivious, \u00a0as the game was still going on.<\/p>\n<p>We tried to swim upstream from City Park and head back towards Miner&#8217;s Park, through the tens of thousands of people heading down from the Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Park City knows it&#8217;s broken, and they&#8217;ve tried for a few years to fix it (god bless their souls). But like traffic, it&#8217;s probably unfixable.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of ours say they are going to Oakley&#8217;s Parade next year. However, that just seems like the locust mentality &#8230; where others have overrun our parade so we&#8217;ll go overrun somebody else&#8217;s. We can&#8217;t buy into that.<\/p>\n<p>So, did the parade and related festivities bring you <em>joy<\/em> this year?<\/p>\n<p>We hope so.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marie Kondo specializes\u00a0in helping people remove clutter from their lives. One of the questions she asks when helping people decide what to keep around&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}