{"id":2077,"date":"2020-06-30T00:43:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/?page_id=2077"},"modified":"2020-06-30T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T00:44:31","slug":"punks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/sample-page\/morgans-people-places\/things\/punks\/","title":{"rendered":"Punks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"931\" height=\"634\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Punk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Punk.jpg 931w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Punk-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Punk-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/contentdir\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Punk-624x425.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 931px) 100vw, 931px\" \/><figcaption>Cattails growing in Chino Creek Wetlands and Educational Park in Chino, California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Morgan Memories \u2013 Punks!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to being the phrase used to describe the teenagers,\nprimarily male, who used to hang outside of George\u2019s Deli on South Pine Avenue\npitching pennies and just looking tough, \u201cpunks\u201d was also the name for another\nthing as I recall from Morgan in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is written that Typha, the only genus in the family Typhaceae, is composed of nearly 40 species and hybrids. \u00a0Better known as Cattails, they came in very handy for lighting firecrackers, cherry bombs, M-80s, bottle rockets, and maybe even sparklers.\u00a0 They had a less than appealing odor when they slowly burned \u2013 especially to insects \u2013 but the fact that they slowly burned made punks the ideal tool for the adolescent fireworks maven.\u00a0 The good ones looked like a long thick cigar on a stick and it was never clear to me \u2013 even now \u2013 from where the neighborhood kids were able to acquire them.\u00a0 I always figured they came either from plants growing along Cheesequake Creek or one of its affluents, from the other side of the railroad tracks in one of the salt marshes, or perhaps from around one of the numerous ponds such as Applegates Pond, Crossways Pond or the Extraback in the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t recall ever actually having one or finding someone\nto get one from \u2013 not even for the coveted July 4 firecracker frenzy.&nbsp; Punks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Originally posted on June\n29, 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Memories \u2013 Punks! In addition to being the phrase used to describe the teenagers, primarily male, who used to hang outside of George\u2019s Deli on South Pine Avenue pitching pennies and just looking tough, \u201cpunks\u201d was also the name for another thing as I recall from Morgan in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2077","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2077\/revisions\/2078"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morgan-nj.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}