{"id":13237,"date":"2015-07-04T18:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=13237"},"modified":"2015-07-04T18:07:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:07:31","slug":"randomthoughts-7415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/04\/randomthoughts-7415\/","title":{"rendered":"RandomThoughts! (7\/4\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I should call these IndependentThoughts? Since it&#8217;s July 4th? Independence Day? Get it? Fine. RandomThoughts it is.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s haul out a Big Board for this&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m already tired of the Confederate flag issue. Of course. that means lots of fun and snarky comments at the upcoming Danville City Council meetings.<\/li>\n<li>I saw that the Tank Museum was doing a special promotion for a &#8220;Family Day&#8221; on July 4th. 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