{"id":397,"date":"2020-07-04T19:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T03:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=397"},"modified":"2020-07-04T19:29:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T03:29:45","slug":"lets-make-america-smart-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2020\/07\/04\/lets-make-america-smart-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Make America Smart Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Normalnoident\">That\u2019s my Independence Day wish for 2020. Let\u2019s restore sanity and civility to our great but struggling nation. Let\u2019s wear masks and beat the virus before it beats us. Let\u2019s root out racism. Let\u2019s treat our friends like friends, and the Earth like it\u2019s our home. Let\u2019s stop cozying up to dictators and destroying families at our borders. Let\u2019s end the national nightmare and Stop Being Stupid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">I wish I could distribute a million hats emblazoned with \u201cMake America Smart Again.\u201d And on the back it would say, &#8220;Make America Compassionate Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normalnoident\">In no particular order, here are just a few smart, compassionate Americans I wish were still with us:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/05\/Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr..jpg\/440px-Martin_Luther_King%2C_Jr..jpg\" alt=\"Martin Luther King, Jr. \" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., activist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sally_Ride\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/0c\/Sally_Ride_%281984%29.jpg\/440px-Sally_Ride_%281984%29.jpg\" alt=\"Sally Ride\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Ride, astronaut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/4\/42\/Richard_Feynman_Nobel.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Feynman \" width=\"200\" height=\"283\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Feynman, scientist and thinker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s my Independence Day wish for 2020. Let\u2019s restore sanity and civility to our great but struggling nation. Let\u2019s wear masks and beat the virus before it beats us. Let\u2019s root out racism. Let\u2019s treat our friends like friends, and the Earth like it\u2019s our home. Let\u2019s stop cozying up to dictators and destroying families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}