{"id":5087,"date":"2016-07-05T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T05:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2016-07-05T04:39:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:39:27","slug":"im-going-tea-party-like-its-1776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=5087","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going to Tea Party like it&#8217;s 1776"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been part of my standard signature line on forums for many years.<\/p>\n<p>1) I am a fan of Prince, hence the wording. hehehe<br \/>\n2) I support the Boston Tea Party, even if it didn&#8217;t happen in 1776.<i>\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/i><br \/>\n3) I support the Declaration of Independence, which DID happen in 1776.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>You may be amazed how many people are offended by one or more of these points. You may not. One forum admin has even given me a warning for it, after going into my profile to delete it because it was so horribly offensive to him.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the thing. I will always be proud of my country. We have done great things. And so I will always celebrate the things we did in our founding years. The Boston Tea Party. The Declaration of Independence. These are clarion calls of liberty for the world.<\/p>\n<p>And Prince is an example of how far we have come. We did not publish African-American art in the 1700s. I grew up in an age when our best singers were African-American.<\/p>\n<p>We have come so far as a country. We have learned so much and stood for great things. We have changed the world. And so&#8230;I will always be proud&#8230;and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to Tea Party like it&#8217;s 1776.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been part of my standard signature line on forums for many years. 1) I am a fan of Prince, hence the wording. hehehe 2) I support the Boston Tea Party, even if it didn&#8217;t happen in 1776.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09[&hellip;]<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/?p=5087\">&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-5087","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\/5087","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=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5089,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions\/5089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackofharts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}