{"id":734,"date":"2026-07-10T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:07:46","slug":"what-would-my-father-say-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"What Would My Father Say to America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/721730_1_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"What Would My Father Say to America?\" title=\"What Would My Father Say to America?\" \/><\/div><p><br \/>Like many of my fellow Americans, I have spent much of this year contemplating the meaning of America&#8217;s 250th birthday. I have participated in fantastic events to mark this momentous occasion, and I have read dozens of reflections on America that range from passionately patriotic to sharply critical and everything in between. Yet, out of everything I&#8217;ve seen or read, I am most moved by the words of my own late father, which I revisited just before the Fourth of July holiday last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of my fellow Americans, I have spent much of this year contemplating the meaning of America&#8217;s 250th birthday. I have participated in fantastic events to mark this momentous occasion, and I have read dozens of reflections on America that range from passionately patriotic to sharply critical and everything in between. Yet, out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/721730_1_.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,551],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-america","tag-father"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}