{"id":262,"date":"2010-04-19T19:54:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T02:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2010-04-19T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T03:08:11","slug":"my-reenactment-has-fire-and-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/my-reenactment-has-fire-and-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"My reenactment has fire and smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a crush on the Icelandic ash cloud.<\/p>\n<p>My day was devoid of tricorn caps, muskets, and marathoners.\u00a0 I heard no gunfire.\u00a0 I went to work without incident and returned home with zero fanfare.\u00a0 Today was Patriots Day and nobody in Michigan noticed.<\/p>\n<p>Patriots Day! How can a holiday so central to my childhood pass by with no more than a comment about the Icelandic ash cloud? Oh, but I love that cloud.\u00a0 I love how a volcano erupted and the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier sublimated and j\u00f6kulhlauped in a furious rage that faded into a passive aggressive aggregation of ash hanging over Europe.\u00a0 Thank goodness the ash cloud is commemorating the shot heard round the world, because Michigan is silent.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"420\" height=\"376\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=78780288001&amp;playerID=16977198001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/16977198001?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=78780288001&amp;playerID=16977198001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"376\" src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/16977198001?isVid=1\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=78780288001&amp;playerID=16977198001&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Patriots day is always marked by a reenactment of the first battle of the Revolutionary war, held on the triangular splay of grass in my hometown of Lexington, MA. I used to think everyone celebrated Patriots day and that every town had a square shaped like a triangle, but only when I left the state did I start yearning for the holiday and searching for alternate geometries.<\/p>\n<p>Will we ever reenact the ash cloud?\u00a0 More things in life should be  reenacted.\u00a0 Iceland is the only place in the world where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is on land.\u00a0 This is no small feat. The Ridge, yes, I&#8217;m capitalizing it, is a gaping, open-mouth zipper that spews oceanic crust out from the innards of our planet.\u00a0 I&#8217;d reenact that.<\/p>\n<p>So hot.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tricorn time\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deepdiscount.com\/resources\/deepdiscount\/images\/products\/processed\/146\/91346283424.zoom.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;I&#39;m having a reenactment at my place.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a crush on the Icelandic ash cloud. My day was devoid of tricorn caps, muskets, and marathoners.\u00a0 I heard no gunfire.\u00a0 I went to work without incident and returned home with zero fanfare.\u00a0 Today was Patriots Day and nobody in Michigan noticed. Patriots Day! 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