{"id":2584,"date":"2019-06-13T09:34:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T15:47:37","slug":"im-proud-to-be-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Proud to be an American!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2588\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/flag-day-pic.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">America, land of the free, home of the brave! \u00a0The American flag is a symbol of our country that represents freedom, hope and unity. \u00a0To see the flag flying above the rubble of tornado-stricken buildings, or over the collapsed twin towers of the World Trade Center, or over the Oklahoma Murrah Building after the bombing is a message to all. \u00a0It is a message of hope for the future and a message of the unity we have as Americans to rebuild and go forward together hand in hand. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The flag is a symbol of the American spirit. \u00a0It\u2019s presence during times of war is a reminder to our soldiers of their love of their homeland and their unselfish passion in a cause they are willing to give their very lives for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether at half-staff, or gallantly flying, or being folded and presented at a soldier\u2019s funeral, Americans choose to treasure this symbol of a land that we love. \u00a0Flag day is a great reminder.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America, land of the free, home of the brave! \u00a0The American flag is a symbol of our country that represents freedom, hope and unity. \u00a0To see the flag flying above the rubble of tornado-stricken buildings, or over the collapsed twin towers of the World Trade Center, or over the Oklahoma Murrah Building after the bombing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}