{"id":80339,"date":"2018-07-04T13:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T17:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80339"},"modified":"2018-07-04T13:45:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T17:45:43","slug":"a-brief-fourth-of-july-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80339","title":{"rendered":"A brief Fourth of July message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at American Thinker, Matt Fitzgibbons has written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/amazon_has_come_tot_he_swamp.html\">a bit of American history<\/a> which contains  a quote that ol\u2019 Poe had not heard before and thinks quite appropriate for this forum of commonly cynical, cantankerous and curmudgeonly commenters. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt George Washington&#8217;s inauguration in April of 1789, New York was our new Republic&#8217;s capital.\u00a0\u00a0Less than a year later, a deal was struck by Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton to move the capital to the mouth of the Potomac.\u00a0\u00a0The North would benefit by having Congress assume the States&#8217; debts, and the South would have a capital closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem was, this new capital would be built on a parasite-infested swamp.\u00a0\u00a0It still is.\u00a0\u00a0Five years earlier in a letter, George Washington had applauded the region for farming as it \u2018contains an inexhaustible supply of manure.\u2019\u00a0It still does.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at American Thinker, Matt Fitzgibbons has written a bit of American history which contains a &hellip; <a title=\"A brief Fourth of July message\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80339\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A brief Fourth of July message<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}