{"id":62918,"date":"2024-07-04T07:06:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=62918"},"modified":"2024-07-04T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T23:39:16","slug":"best-wishes-for-the-4th-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/best-wishes-for-the-4th-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Wishes for the 4th of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4072\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PICT5737sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4072\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PICT5737sm-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks #48\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PICT5737sm-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PICT5737sm-733x1024.jpg 733w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/PICT5737sm.jpg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 85vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fireworks #48<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Wikipedia, this holiday is described as &#8220;<span class=\"expandableItem\">Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.<\/span>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My wish is that people reflect on what it meant to write the Declaration of Independence. It did not mean, in my reading, tell lies and do whatever you want to get people to do your bidding.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be kind, work together, have robust but civil discussions and respect the choices of others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wikipedia, this holiday is described as &#8220;Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America.&#8221; My wish is that people reflect on what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/best-wishes-for-the-4th-of-july\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Wishes for the 4th of July&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-62918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-best-wishes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63185,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62918\/revisions\/63185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}