{"id":772,"date":"2012-09-11T23:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2012-09-11T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:03:22","slug":"americas-wars-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"AMERICA&#8217;S WAR(S) FOR INDEPENDENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1775-1783\u00a0 America&#8217;s First War for Independence<\/p>\n<p>1812-1815\u00a0 America&#8217;s\u00a0 Second War for Independence<\/p>\n<p>2012\u00a0 America&#8217;s Third War for Independence<\/p>\n<p>Americans have forgotten how to fight.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have forgotten how to revolt.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have forgotten how to sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have lost our passion for freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have long forgotten that the will for independence came from pulpits for decades prior to the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Americans have delegated all fighting and sacrifice to our military and their families.\u00a0 Thank God for them, but they can&#8217;t do it alone, while we conduct business as usual back here at home.<\/p>\n<p>The American Revolution quickly hit home for everyone and every family.\u00a0 They did what they had to do, beyond their comfort, and became free.<\/p>\n<p>Are we too comfortable to fight in 2012?<\/p>\n<p>If we lose this Third War for Independence, we lose everything we gained in the first two Wars for Independence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please read message on July 5. 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1775-1783\u00a0 America&#8217;s First War for Independence 1812-1815\u00a0 America&#8217;s\u00a0 Second War for Independence 2012\u00a0 America&#8217;s Third War for Independence Americans have forgotten how to fight. Americans have forgotten how to revolt. Americans have forgotten how to sacrifice. Americans have lost our passion for freedom. Americans have long forgotten that the will for independence came from pulpits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}