{"id":37116,"date":"2013-07-05T07:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T12:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37116"},"modified":"2013-07-05T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T15:06:15","slug":"a-flagrant-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37116","title":{"rendered":"A Flagrant Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like most Americans, I observed the Independence Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p>And given the state of the nation, it got me thinking; liberty and conservative-minded people need a new observance.<\/p>\n<p>Because as Ben Franklin noted, a republic is a great form of government, if you can keep it<\/p>\n<p>So once the declarations are read and the fireworks are shot off? That&#8217;s when the hard part &#8211; keeping your democracy &#8211; begins.<\/p>\n<p>And what better day for than July 5th?h<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like most Americans, I observed the Independence Day holiday. And given the state of the nation, it got me thinking; liberty and conservative-minded people need a new observance. Because as Ben Franklin noted, a republic is a great form of government, if you can keep it So once the declarations are read and the fireworks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37120,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37116\/revisions\/37120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}