{"id":11287,"date":"2022-07-04T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T05:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=11287"},"modified":"2022-07-04T03:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T08:51:15","slug":"happy-independence-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=11287","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Independence-Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Independence-Day-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Independence-Day-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Independence-Day-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Independence-Day-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-Independence-Day.jpg 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we celebrate the day Will Smith saved us all from aliens.  And there was a really nice speech by the President as well.<\/p>\n<p>More seriously, we celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing a piece of it up.  And hopefully not a piece of ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Okay.  Fine.  Not serious enough.<\/p>\n<p>Today we celebrate.  Maybe set off some fireworks.  Maybe grill some meat.  Maybe sit back with a good drink and watch a game.  However we celebrate, it is the nation that has protected our freedom to do all of this that we celebrate.  Most of us have grown up with a peace and security few outside our nation enjoy.  We should remember that.<\/p>\n<p>We should celebrate that.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Independence Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate the day Will Smith saved us all from aliens. And there was a really nice speech by the President as well. More seriously, we celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing a piece of it up.[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=11287\">&darr; Read the rest of this entry&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaries","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-medron-pryde"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11288,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11287\/revisions\/11288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}