{"id":683,"date":"2015-07-04T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T23:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2015-07-04T16:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T23:07:58","slug":"happy-birthday-america-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the <strong>Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God<\/strong> Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with\u00a0Shews, Games, Sports, <strong>Guns<\/strong>, Bells, Bonfires and <strong>Illuminations<\/strong> from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 3 July 1776, &#8220;Had a Declaration<\/p>\n<p>Yes he said God, Guns and Illuminations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[125],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-culture","tag-fourth-of-july"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}