{"id":40523,"date":"2018-07-04T23:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=40523"},"modified":"2018-07-04T23:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T03:23:46","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your 4th of July reading pleasure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/declaration-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Declaration of Independence<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/juliareinstein\/we-hold-these-alternative-truths-to-be-self-evident?utm_term=.jcBmLOwWx#.mkjJPL5zw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the way ignorant people react to the Declaration of Independence<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1014544959360286720.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a smart Twitter thread about the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a bonus, here&#8217;s a great illustration by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/women-marched-2018-223728985.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monica Martino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_40525\" style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/588271183\/girl-hold-my-earrings-statue-of-liberty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40525\" class=\"wp-image-40525 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/monicamartino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/monicamartino.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/monicamartino-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/monicamartino-300x386.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40525\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poster by Monica Martino. Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think I need to get the Lady Liberty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/511463825\/anti-trump-statue-of-liberty-button-girl?ref=listing-shop-header-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">button<\/a>. It will look good next to this one &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BkViQv9hym-\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"8\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50.0% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BkViQv9hym-\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Know your place. #resist #generalorgana #votethemout #fucktrump\ud83d\udd95 #nevergiveup<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wendybrandes\/\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px;\" target=\"_blank\"> Wendy Brandes<\/a> (@wendybrandes) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2018-06-22T18:09:52+00:00\">Jun 22, 2018 at 11:09am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BkEZDRoBn3s\/?hl=en&#038;taken-by=wendybrandes\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Resistbot tote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your 4th of July reading pleasure. The Declaration of Independence; the way ignorant people react to the Declaration of Independence; a smart Twitter thread about the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. As a bonus, here&#8217;s a great illustration by Monica Martino. I think I need to get the Lady Liberty button. It will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/independence-day\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,143],"tags":[1597],"class_list":{"0":"post-40523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-in-the-news","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-independence-day","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40527,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40523\/revisions\/40527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}