{"id":1324,"date":"2021-07-04T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T05:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2021-07-04T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T05:21:17","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2021\/07\/04\/happy-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normalnoident\">Wishing everyone a safe and happy Fourth of July, which in the U.S. is the celebration of the birth of our nation! Let\u2019s celebrate it by keeping our democracy alive and healthy! That\u2019s what <i>I <\/i>want for America\u2019s birthday! I want truth to prevail. I want <i>all <\/i>citizens to have an equal right to vote and to obtain justice. I want\u2014well, so many things\u2014but let\u2019s go with this: I want us to work together to fix global climate change, and not keep watching heat waves and wild fires and hurricanes get worse, year after year. Man, if we could just do those things together, it would be a fantastic birthday for America!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">Happy Birthday, nation I love!<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Boston-Pops-Mavis-Staples-July-4-at-Tanglewood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"331\" \/><br \/>\n(We celebrated from down south in Puerto Rico, courtesy of the internet, by watching the Boston Pops live at Tanglewood. Here&#8217;s Mavis Staples, photo by Christiana Botic for the Boston Globe.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing everyone a safe and happy Fourth of July, which in the U.S. is the celebration of the birth of our nation! Let\u2019s celebrate it by keeping our democracy alive and healthy! That\u2019s what I want for America\u2019s birthday! I want truth to prevail. I want all citizens to have an equal right to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}