{"id":1128,"date":"2014-07-04T06:59:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2014-07-04T07:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T15:18:36","slug":"happy-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/happy-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/happy-independence-day\/\" data-text=\"Happy Independence Day!\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted on and passed a resolution of independence from Great Britain. \u00a0For two more days they debated the wording of their statement explaining their decision, and approved that statement on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independence_Day_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">July 4th<\/a>. \u00a0That statement was, of course The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence\" target=\"_blank\">Declaration of Independence<\/a>. \u00a0 There is some debate about whether the Declaration was actually signed on July 4th, but it is known that it was voted on an accepted by the Congress on that date.<\/p>\n<p>Signing the Declaration was an act of treason &#8211; an enormous risk for the signers to take to stand up for their principles \u00a0Though they were political leaders, they were not politicians. \u00a0Can you imagine any politcian today taking any similar stand for any reason at all? \u00a0Me neither. \u00a0I believe the easy lives we lead have made us soft in more ways than one. \u00a0Too bad.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s celelebrate the fact that there were such men as these when they were needed! \u00a0Happy Birthday, America! \u00a0To kick off the celebration, here is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Skelton\" target=\"_blank\">Red Skelton<\/a> pledging allegiance:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZBTyTWOZCM?list=RD4HR6mj3Cexs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2014\/07\/the-eternal-meaning-of-independence-day-7.php\" target=\"_blank\">excellent post on the meaning of Independence day at Powerline<\/a>. \u00a0Well worth you time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet On July 2nd, 1776, the Continental Congress voted on and passed a resolution of independence from Great Britain. \u00a0For two more days they debated the wording of their statement explaining their decision, and approved that statement on July 4th. \u00a0That statement was, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}