{"id":1654,"date":"2010-07-04T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T15:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2010-07-04T23:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T03:00:21","slug":"happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/2010\/07\/happy-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day!! Err, wait, are you legal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"406\" height=\"228\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=912940&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=912940&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"406\" height=\"228\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>On this July 4th weekend I thought it fitting to share a stunning factoid with you: the Border Patrol station in Rochester, N.Y. apprehended more than 1,200 people who did not qualify to be in the United States in 2007&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->That&#8217;s more than any of the other 41 stations on the U.S.\/Canadian border.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewburtonphoto.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Andrew Burton <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>, photography major at Syracuse University&#8217;s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications documented this find in the film above \u2014 take a look.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to extinguish that sparkler.\" rel=\"lightbox-independenceDay\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/sparklers-illegal-in-new-york.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin: 0 0 8 8;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/photos\/sparklers-illegal-in-new-york.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to extinguish that sparkler.\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Now go celebrate your many freedoms by lighting up a sparkler&#8230; oh snap, looks like you&#8217;re gonna <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfireworks.biz\/legal\/ny.htm\" target=\"_new\">need a permit for that <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:relative; top:2px;\" alt=\"external link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/images\/icon_link\" width=\"15\" heigth=\"11\" border=\"0\"><\/a>. Screw it, I&#8217;m lighting up anyway. Come get me policeman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this July 4th weekend I thought it fitting to share a stunning factoid with you: the Border Patrol station in Rochester, N.Y. apprehended more than 1,200 people who did not qualify to be in the United States in 2007&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114,3],"tags":[136,839,810,837,840,836,838,308,53,700,151,209,841],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rochester_news","category-mass_transit_infrastructure","tag-amtrak","tag-border-patrol","tag-canada","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-immigration","tag-independence-day","tag-july-4th","tag-new-york","tag-rochester","tag-rochester-amtrak-station","tag-rochester-ny","tag-transit","tag-united-states-of-america-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochestersubway.com\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}