{"id":1978,"date":"2009-10-13T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2009-10-12T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:54:55","slug":"fire-station-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/13\/fire-station-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Station Open House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009-10-10-img-0943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009-10-10-img-0943-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a>This past weekend we took the boys to the local Wheaton Fire Station #1 for their annual open house. I have to admit, while the initial idea was to take them, I really looked forward to it as well. I think the last time I was at a Fire House was in 3rd grade when the whole class took a trip. You know, guys and big machinery, trucks or anything that makes a loud noises. It&#8217;s hard to not get excited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009-10-10-img-0933.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009-10-10-img-0933-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>The boys really loved it and we ended the trip with a ride on one of the Fire Trucks. All and all a great way to start the day! The rest of the photos can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/tomchak.smugmug.com\/Family\/2009-1010WheatonFireHouseVisit\/9930909_gFT59#677463591_xBPik\" target=\"_blank\">SmugMug.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009-10-10-img-0941.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-to-original\" style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2009-10-10-img-0941-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we took the boys to the local Wheaton Fire Station #1 for their annual open house. I have to admit, while the initial idea was to take them, I really looked forward to it as well. I think the last time I was at a Fire House was in 3rd grade when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,10,21,160],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-andrew","tag-brenda","tag-max","tag-wheaton-fire-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-vU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/recent-heavy-rains\/","url_meta":{"origin":1978,"position":0},"title":"Recent Heavy Rains","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"September 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Before I left for China we got some pretty heavy rain in our area. 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