{"id":26,"date":"2011-07-04T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/2011\/07\/04\/july-4th\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T12:07:22","slug":"july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->America&#39;s Birthday=<br \/>\n!<span class=3D'imgright'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/=\nbcupp\/blog\/FlagMove.gif' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I wish that everyone in the=<br \/>\n world has a healthy, restrained, sense of national pride in their home =<br \/>\ncountries.  This includes people who now reside in another place than th=<br \/>\neir homeland.  In my military days I met people from around the world an=<br \/>\nd I saw quite a bit of patriotism that I admired.  We all need to get al=<br \/>\nong &#8230; we all need to admit &quot;our&quot; countries have flaws &#8230; bu=<br \/>\nt if the bad parts annoy you then work to improve the situation.<br \/><br=\n\/>Healthy national pride means that I like my country a lot and I respec=<br \/>\nt you for liking yours.  It&#39;s like school or sports teams &#8230; of cou=<br \/>\nrse you favor your own, but you don&#39;t shoot someone over it.  You ju=<br \/>\nst go and prove you are best &#8230; by beating them on the sports field, or=<br \/>\n showing them the good aspects of your school.  Or, welcoming tourists t=<br \/>\no you homeland and showing them about.  I enjoy travel, I enjoy meeting =<br \/>\npeople from other lands, and I enjoy learning about their history and cu=<br \/>\nlture.  But America is my home and I like it most.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthd=<br \/>\nay, U.S.A.!<\/p>\n<p>(Sad part is, now June is over and I have to wait a=<br \/>\nlmost a year until it comes again.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}