{"id":4613,"date":"2017-07-06T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2017-07-06T05:03:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T09:03:11","slug":"go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: The City of Saratoga Springs’ Fourth of July activities have grown to such an extent that we have decided to present them to you in segments. For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning. Thank you to MJ Collins for getting up early and capturing the excitement and color of the 11th Annual renewal of the race through downtown in these photos. – AG<\/em><\/strong>
\n\"\"
\n\"\"
\n

\"\"
John Busque of Connecticut about to break the tape in the 11th Annual Firecracker 4. Busque smashed the course record by six seconds, clocking in at 19:13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n
\"\"
Repeat female division winner Kelsey Chmiel from Saratoga Springs HS gathers herself after crossing the finish line. Her official winning time was 22:04.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n\"\"
\n
\"\"
Joey Chestnut might do well with hot dogs, but these guys concede nothing in Esperanto’s Doughboy Eating Contest. We advise competitors to wait a while before running, however.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n\"\"
\n\"\"
\n\"\"
\n\"\"
\n\"\"
\n\"\"
\nPhotos: MJ Collins
\non July 4, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor’s Note: The City of Saratoga Springs’ Fourth of July activities have grown to such an extent that we have decided to present them to you in segments. For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning. Thank you to MJ Collins […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":4618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,8],"tags":[492,493,4],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoors","category-sports","tag-firecracker-4","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-saratoga-springs"],"yoast_head":"\r\nGo Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse - The Daily Planet Arthur<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning.\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse - The Daily Planet Arthur\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning.\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Daily Planet Arthur\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arthur.gonick\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-06T08:46:07+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-06T09:03:11+00:00\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"492\" \/>\r\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Arthur\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/go_arthur\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Arthur\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\r\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/\",\"name\":\"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse - The Daily Planet Arthur\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-06T08:46:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-06T09:03:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#\/schema\/person\/773d66497389b8f3b3878424db163807\"},\"description\":\"For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":492},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/\",\"name\":\"The Daily Planet Arthur\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#\/schema\/person\/773d66497389b8f3b3878424db163807\",\"name\":\"Arthur\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94740ee40dd2a83516d140afceb44f4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94740ee40dd2a83516d140afceb44f4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Arthur\"},\"description\":\"Long before I became a reporter, I became a human being. Empathy is the key to telling any good story... I write with the goal of always having my next story be my best story!\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arthur.gonick\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/go_arthur\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/author\/art-gonick\/\"}]}<\/script>\r\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse - The Daily Planet Arthur","description":"For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse - The Daily Planet Arthur","og_description":"For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/","og_site_name":"The Daily Planet Arthur","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arthur.gonick","article_published_time":"2017-07-06T08:46:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-07-06T09:03:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":492,"url":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Arthur","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/go_arthur","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Arthur","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/","url":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/","name":"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse - The Daily Planet Arthur","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg","datePublished":"2017-07-06T08:46:07+00:00","dateModified":"2017-07-06T09:03:11+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#\/schema\/person\/773d66497389b8f3b3878424db163807"},"description":"For the early-birds, be they runners or rooters, there is nothing that beats the Firecracker 4 on a picture-perfect sun drenched morning.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/63\/2017\/07\/feat.jpg","width":768,"height":492},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/2017\/07\/go-fourth-and-celebrate-firecracker-4-lights-the-fuse\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Go Fourth and Celebrate! Firecracker 4 Lights the Fuse"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/","name":"The Daily Planet Arthur","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#\/schema\/person\/773d66497389b8f3b3878424db163807","name":"Arthur","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94740ee40dd2a83516d140afceb44f4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/94740ee40dd2a83516d140afceb44f4d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Arthur"},"description":"Long before I became a reporter, I became a human being. Empathy is the key to telling any good story... I write with the goal of always having my next story be my best story!","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arthur.gonick","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/go_arthur"],"url":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/author\/art-gonick\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4619,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/daily-planet-arthur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}