{"id":2148,"date":"2015-07-04T11:08:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T19:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2015-07-04T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T19:08:41","slug":"happy-independence-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/happy-independence-day-2\/","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-2\/\" 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>July 4th, 1776: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_Continental_Congress\" target=\"_blank\">The Continental Congress<\/a> adopts the text of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence\" target=\"_blank\">Declaration of Independence.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2149\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/happy-independence-day-2\/stone-tif\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"wp-image-2149\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/declaration-of-independence-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"stone.tif\" width=\"337\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/declaration-of-independence-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/declaration-of-independence-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/declaration-of-independence-863x1024.jpg 863w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">stone.tif<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Though Congress had voted in favor of actually declaring independence from Great Britain on July 2nd, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Jefferson<\/a> was selected to draft the document and after 2 days of writing and editing, the text was ratified on July 4th. \u00a0This was not a trivial act &#8211; it was an act of treason. \u00a0Were the revolution to fail, it would mean a death sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/podcasts\/media\/jeffersons_words\/declaration.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reflect for a moment today on what we have to be grateful for, because some men a few hundred years ago had the courage to draft and sign a document.<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cuanaenterprises.com\/blog.php\" target=\"_blank\">Men Out of Work Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet July 4th, 1776: The Continental Congress adopts the text of the Declaration of Independence. Though Congress had voted in favor of actually declaring independence from Great Britain on July 2nd, Thomas Jefferson was selected to draft the document and after 2 days of writing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-life","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148","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=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}