{"id":403,"date":"2009-07-04T00:19:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-07-01T20:26:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T02:26:54","slug":"obligatory-independence-day-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Obligatory Independence Day Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_kXnVoQ9ZFkQ\/SYE90jLmP7I\/AAAAAAAAHRw\/yTUGssPV5fk\/s400\/americaisokiguess.jpg\">This country is pretty okay, I suppose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many things, this country is run by some sort of system of government, which involves politics, none of with I can do anything even vaguely about. The wheels of it keep on turning, and sometimes I vote, I have even called up a congressperson once or twice, but it doesn&#8217;t particularly mean anything. It&#8217;s just kind of a suggestion that is easily ignored. I can do nothing, really, to affect this country, and as such, I can&#8217;t say I have any real strong claim to it. I certainly have nothing that even borders upon real patriotism.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are a lot of things that I hold near and dear. My home, my family, many rights that I would not have if I lived in other parts of the world. Would I be writing this stupid, stupid blog if I didn&#8217;t live in America? I don&#8217;t know. It becomes much less likely.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel any real connection to America, and I think we don&#8217;t do a lot of things right. But I enjoy quite a bit of the freedoms and such that I&#8217;ve been given because I live here. I enjoy many things about living here.<\/p>\n<p>So, you know. Happy Birthday, America. We&#8217;ll fire off some explosives that make pretty colors for you. Keep trying to improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This country is pretty okay, I suppose. Like so many things, this country is run by some sort of system of government, which involves politics, none of with I can do anything even vaguely about. The wheels of it keep on turning, and sometimes I vote, I have even called up a congressperson once or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}