{"id":40342,"date":"2020-07-04T10:55:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40342"},"modified":"2020-07-04T10:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T17:55:05","slug":"july-4-a-day-of-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/04\/july-4-a-day-of-mourning\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4 &#8211; A Day of Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" title=\"4th of July 2017\" style=\"border-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" alt=\"4th of July 2017\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4th-of-July-2017.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">This article is a repeat of last year&#8217;s, with changes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">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.&nbsp; However, then the US was an independent nation.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Now it is under foreign domination.<\/span> <font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican plague, Trump* virus is sweeping the nation and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.&nbsp; Trump* makes it worse with his super-spreader campaign events at taxpayer expense.&nbsp; Racist Republican police are murdering Blacks with ever increasing frequency, while Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch and Senate Republicans prevent meaningful reform.&nbsp; Trump* and his Republican Reich are spouting racist screeds and promoting White Supremacy like never before.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">I&#8217;m sorry, but as long as Donald Trump*, Putin&#8217;s Puppet, and his Republican Reich stay in power, the 4th of July will be a day of mourning.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is a repeat of last year&#8217;s, with changes. 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.&nbsp; However, then the US was an independent nation.&nbsp; Now it is under foreign domination. The Republican <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/04\/july-4-a-day-of-mourning\/' 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":[3725],"class_list":["post-40342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-politics","tag-holiday","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\/40342","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=40342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}