{"id":6753,"date":"2015-07-04T00:20:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T07:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2015-07-04T07:56:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T14:56:42","slug":"an-annual-independence-day-reminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/07\/an-annual-independence-day-reminder\/","title":{"rendered":"An Annual Rifftides Independence Day Reminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety<\/em>. \u00e2\u20ac\u201cBenjamin Franklin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/founding-fathers-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/founding-fathers-3.jpg\" alt=\"founding+fathers+3\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/founding-fathers-3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/founding-fathers-3-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves<\/em>. \u00e2\u20ac\u201cAbraham Lincoln<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/o-AMERICAN-FLAG-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/o-AMERICAN-FLAG-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"o-AMERICAN-FLAG-facebook\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/o-AMERICAN-FLAG-facebook.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/o-AMERICAN-FLAG-facebook-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"8\">Happy Fourth of July<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. \u00e2\u20ac\u201cBenjamin Franklin America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. \u00e2\u20ac\u201cAbraham Lincoln Happy Fourth of July<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}