{"id":230,"date":"2004-07-04T09:20:26","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T13:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=230"},"modified":"2004-07-04T09:20:26","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T13:20:26","slug":"happy-birthday-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, U.S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is generally reckoned as the 228th birthday of the United States of America.  Some good wishes are therefore in order.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May you display the best ideals you&#8217;ve always put forth to the world.  They&#8217;re older now, but they&#8217;re still good ones:  equality under the law, freedom of thought and conscience, and the rule of law over the rule of might.  You don&#8217;t always remember them in the heat of the moment, but they are your abiding strengths.\n<li>May you use your diversity as another strength in its many guises.\n<li>May you use your military and political might with humility, because your mistakes will have more severe consequences that the mistakes of other nations.\n<li>May your people see their neighbors as another source of strength, especially when they disagree about the affairs of the nation, for without disagreement there is no correction.\n<li>May you have many more birthdays to celebrate.<\/ul>\n<p>Your friend&#151;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is generally reckoned as the 228th birthday of the United States of America. Some good wishes are therefore in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-3I","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}