{"id":551,"date":"2026-07-06T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2026-07-06T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T22:22:22","slug":"america-250-better-an-insane-asylum-than-a-morgue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"America 250: Better an Insane Asylum Than a Morgue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/67\/674965_1_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"America 250: Better an Insane Asylum Than a Morgue\" title=\"America 250: Better an Insane Asylum Than a Morgue\" \/><\/div><p><br \/>The United States is turning 250. As I write this, sprawled out in a shallow inflatable pool in my yard, a gull-winged WWII-era Corsair has just thundered low over the trees. The rumble of warbirds has been rolling across the sky all day. It stirs a feeling deep inside me, not of sentiment but of a potent mix of dopamine and adrenaline and gunpowder. A feeling of danger and excitement verging on psychosis. My head is swimming from the heat, and I feel like I am going insane. I love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is turning 250. As I write this, sprawled out in a shallow inflatable pool in my yard, a gull-winged WWII-era Corsair has just thundered low over the trees. The rumble of warbirds has been rolling across the sky all day. It stirs a feeling deep inside me, not of sentiment but of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/67\/674965_1_.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,1174,1173,1175],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-america","tag-asylum","tag-insane","tag-morgue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}