{"id":36,"date":"2004-01-02T00:25:46","date_gmt":"2004-01-02T04:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/01\/02\/happy-new-year-from-somerville\/"},"modified":"2004-01-02T00:25:46","modified_gmt":"2004-01-02T04:25:46","slug":"happy-new-year-from-somerville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2004\/01\/02\/happy-new-year-from-somerville\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year from Somerville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a40'><\/a><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"4\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/2004\/01\/01.html#a113\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/stepno\/133x205topIMG0565.jpg\" height=\"205\" width=\"133\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Somerville's First Flag: \"><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\nSomerville, the city Bostonians see as slightly to the right of Cambridge, marks<br \/>\nthe first day of the year with some unique flag-waving&#8230; which gave me<br \/>\na chance to &#8220;cover&#8221; a local community event in my own backyard, as well as to  experiment with links between weblogs and pictures on my home page. <\/p>\n<p>\nSome sadly misinformed people think the<br \/>\n&#8220;First Flag&#8221; actually flew over neighboring Cambridge, according to one speaker at<br \/>\nThursday&#8217;s event. But after Bunker Hill was captured, Prospect Hill<br \/>\n(then in Charlestown, now Somerville) was the next line of defense,<br \/>\nand the line held through the siege of Boston into the first dawn of 1776. <\/p>\n<p>\nSo let Boston have its &#8220;First Night&#8221; &#8212; Somerville seemed pretty happy<br \/>\nwith its annual morning after.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Follow <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/2004\/01\/01.html#a113\">the link<\/a> for the history of the<br \/>\nflag and more pictures&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0106327\/2004\/01\/01.html#a113'>Happy New Year from Somerville &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somerville, the city Bostonians see as slightly to the right of Cambridge, marks the first day of the year with some unique flag-waving&#8230; which gave me a chance to &#8220;cover&#8221; a local community event in my own backyard, as well as to experiment with links between weblogs and pictures on my home page. Some sadly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepnostories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1090"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}