{"id":66959,"date":"2025-07-04T07:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66959"},"modified":"2025-06-29T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T05:11:46","slug":"happy-july-4th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/happy-july-4th\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy July 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who celebrate, Happy Independence Day! For those of you who do not celebrate, have a great day and please send wishes that our country can wake up from this nightmare in which it is immersed and get back on a good path.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1760\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1760\" style=\"width: 215px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pict3956sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1760\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pict3956sm-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beacon #11\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pict3956sm-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pict3956sm-734x1024.jpg 734w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/pict3956sm.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 85vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beacon #11<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t specifically a Fourth of July image, but our country needs something. Some hope is a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Lessons in civics as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who celebrate, Happy Independence Day! For those of you who do not celebrate, have a great day and please send wishes that our country can wake up from this nightmare in which it is immersed and get back on a good path. This isn&#8217;t specifically a Fourth of July image, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/happy-july-4th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy July 4th&#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":[538],"tags":[350],"class_list":["post-66959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","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\/66959","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=66959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66961,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66959\/revisions\/66961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}