{"id":192,"date":"2012-04-10T00:19:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T06:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2012-04-10T00:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T06:19:44","slug":"usa-up-by-ten-and-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"USA &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; UP  BY  TEN &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; AND  LOSING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States of America has been blessed with ten generations that knew the meaning of sacrifice&#8212;that knew the price of freedom&#8212;that maintained eternal vigilance&#8212;that passed on the meaning of &#8220;a moral people&#8221;&#8212;that turned and returned to God in crisis and in prosperity&#8212;that never forgot where we came from and why we are here&#8212;that believed we are exceptional because we are founded on the Bible&#8212;that believed we are called by God to be a bastion of freedom against worlds of evil&#8212;that believed every American must fight for family and freedom&#8212;that understood the people&#8217;s government is good when the people are good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The United States of America is &#8220;up by ten&#8221; because ten generations have maintained our heritage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When one generation fails to pass on the torch of freedom to the next, that freedom and all its blessings vanish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are living in that generation now, and the USA&#8212;up by ten&#8212;is losing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States of America has been blessed with ten generations that knew the meaning of sacrifice&#8212;that knew the price of freedom&#8212;that maintained eternal vigilance&#8212;that passed on the meaning of &#8220;a moral people&#8221;&#8212;that turned and returned to God in crisis and in prosperity&#8212;that never forgot where we came from and why we are here&#8212;that believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}