{"id":4876,"date":"2015-07-03T16:36:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=4876"},"modified":"2015-07-03T16:36:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:36:21","slug":"independence-day-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/independence-day-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat and listened to \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d by Condoleezza Rice and Jenny Oaks Baker I could not help think of the founding fathers and their belief in God. Their understanding of the importance of freedom as a God given principal. As the founding fathers were guided by the spirit and their wisdom, we have a nation that has grown and a land of people that have had freedom. As we pass through challenging times, it would seem that our nation needs to turn their eyes towards God rather than secularism and those things contrary to faith, hope and charity. Enjoy this rendition of Amazing Grace. Perhaps it will touch you as well.<\/p>\n<p><code><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0hFO6EcC0ls\" frameborder=\"0\"  allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/code><\/p>\n<p>One can only hope that people realize they are celebrating Independence Day and should be walking away from a government dependence lifestyle.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sat and listened to \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d by Condoleezza Rice and Jenny Oaks Baker I could not help think of the founding fathers and their belief in God. Their understanding of the importance of freedom as a God given principal. As the founding fathers were guided by the spirit and their wisdom, we have [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,34,33],"tags":[77,75,74],"class_list":["post-4876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-philosophy","category-religion","tag-music","tag-philosophy","tag-religion","odd"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4876"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4883,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4876\/revisions\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gdpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}