{"id":634,"date":"2005-07-04T11:21:44","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T16:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/07\/04\/4th-of-july-is-independence-day\/"},"modified":"2006-07-04T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T15:56:40","slug":"4th-of-july-is-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/07\/4th-of-july-is-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July is Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not hearing &#8220;Independence Day&#8221; much this year, so let me say it loud:<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a revolution against the tyrannies of old King George. <\/p>\n<p>How could so much of our hard-won independence for our freedom and democracy been so senselessly squandered?<\/p>\n<p>How could Independence Day be represented the way I&#8217;m seeing it this year? I want to see more patriots and less nationalists! <\/p>\n<p>Give me liberty or give me death &#8211; it&#8217;s on the license plates still in New Hampshire, isn&#8217;t it? Say it is.  I&#8217;m from Massachusetts, and the history of that great struggle is a matter of pride there. In Georgia&#8230;. well.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll still go see the fireworks &#8211; just not at Stone Mountain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not hearing &#8220;Independence Day&#8221; much this year, so let me say it loud: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!! It&#8217;s about a revolution against the tyrannies of old King George. How could so much of our hard-won independence for our freedom and democracy been so senselessly squandered? How could Independence Day be represented the way I&#8217;m seeing it this year? I want to see more patriots and less nationalists! Give me liberty or give me death &#8211; it&#8217;s on the license plates still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/07\/4th-of-july-is-independence-day\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,3],"tags":[295,815,158,635,816,817,87,805,807,818,819,820],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-human-rights","category-politics","tag-democracy","tag-fireworks","tag-freedom","tag-georgia","tag-independence-daty","tag-liberty","tag-massachusetts","tag-nationalism","tag-patriotism","tag-revolution","tag-stone-mountain","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}