{"id":32960,"date":"2018-07-04T12:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T19:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=32960"},"modified":"2018-07-04T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T19:09:38","slug":"fourth-of-july-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/04\/fourth-of-july-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"4th of July 2017\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"4th of July 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4th-of-July-2017.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">This article is a repeat of last year&#8217;s with minor additions.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Traditionally I have celebrated Independence Day with excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, videos of the local fireworks display, and lessons on the differences between true patriotism and nationalism.&#160; However, then the US was an independent nation.&#160; Now it is under foreign domination.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff\">I&#8217;m sorry, but as long as Donald Trump, Putin&#8217;s Puppet, and his Republican Reich stay in power and keep the US in thrall to Russia, the 4th of July will be a day of mourning.<\/span> <\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a repeat of last year&#8217;s with minor additions. &#160;Traditionally I have celebrated Independence Day with excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, videos of the local fireworks display, and lessons on the differences between true patriotism and nationalism.&#160; However, then the US was an independent nation.&#160; Now it is under foreign domination. I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/04\/fourth-of-july-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-politics","category-145-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}