{"id":461,"date":"2012-06-13T00:16:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T06:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2012-06-13T00:16:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T06:16:34","slug":"f-r-e-e-d-o-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"F  R  E  E  D  O  M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I soberly ponder the convictions and the words of those who spoke and wrote and sacrificed for freedom in the past, I wonder where the defenders of liberty will come from now.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know what will be asked of us soon, but it may well include the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would rather die fighting for The Republic of Texas than helplessly watch The United States of America surrender to Islam.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I soberly ponder the convictions and the words of those who spoke and wrote and sacrificed for freedom in the past, I wonder where the defenders of liberty will come from now. I do not know what will be asked of us soon, but it may well include the following: &#8220;I would rather die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"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=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}