{"id":74585,"date":"2020-07-04T16:24:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T21:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74585"},"modified":"2020-07-04T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T21:24:16","slug":"love-letter-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74585","title":{"rendered":"Love Letter To America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Manny Laureano &#8211; friend of the blog, of the show, and of the good guys all over the Metro &#8211; writes this love letter to America on the Independence Day holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mannylaureano.com\/2020\/07\/04\/independence-day-2020-a-love-letter\/\">You should read the whole thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna pullquote a bit anyway:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I love being an American.<\/p><p>I love that in an airport terminal I can hear a strong Bronx accent, a Texas drawl, a sweet North Carolina lilt, and L.A. surfer-speak\u00a0<strong>all spoken by people whose parents came from Germany, Japan, Ghana, and the Dominican Republic.<\/strong><\/p><p>I love being an American.<\/p><p>I love that I\u2019m different from others in the world. Because I love that I am secure enough in who I am to not want to be like others. I am content with the richness that is part of who I am without coveting the nature of others while accepting my foibles.\u00a0<strong>I derive pride from living under the oldest constitution in the world. I\u00a0<\/strong>love that we have grown over the last 233 years to amend that constitution to reflect some newer acknowledgements over earlier decisions. I love that we can bend without snapping in two although once we came close. We fought an internal battle and spent a long time healing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>And I love being an American.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And reading this &#8211; among so many other stimuli &#8211; so do I.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Independence Day, everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manny Laureano &#8211; friend of the blog, of the show, and of the good guys all over the Metro &#8211; writes this love letter to America on the Independence Day holiday. You should read the whole thing. I&#8217;m gonna pullquote a bit anyway: I love being an American. I love that in an airport terminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74585","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=74585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74586,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74585\/revisions\/74586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}