{"id":439,"date":"2025-02-05T03:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-02-05T03:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T03:01:55","slug":"dear-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/dear-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Mister Brown and I come to A Patchwork to post, the caption in the field where we enter our text asks, \u201c<em>What\u2019s on your mind?<\/em>\u201d Today I\u2019ve decided to post just that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America the Beautiful, <br><br>We\u2019ve made ourselves the enemy of one another. <br><br>We\u2019ve lost sight of the fact that we all want the same things; what\u2019s best for ourselves, our loved ones, and each other \u2013 our fellow countrymen and women, near and far. <br><br>We\u2019ve lost sight of the fact that \u201c<em>We, The People of the United States<\/em>\u201d are America. <br><br>We\u2019ve forgotten that we\u2019ve already learned whom these missights could only benefit; those who wish us to fail. <br><br>How aware are we of the fact that attentiveness, participation, and action are required of us to keep Democracy? <br><br>Each and every day, I hope we dodge the fate we seem determined to meet. <br><br>Let us all pursue the dream that is promised.  <br><br>Let us all have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. <br><br>Let us be one nation, indivisible, with liberty, and justice for all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Truly One of Yours, <br><br>A Sincerely Concerned Fellow American<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mister Brown and I come to A Patchwork to post, the caption in the field where we enter our text asks, \u201cWhat\u2019s on your mind?\u201d Today I\u2019ve decided to post just that: America the Beautiful, We\u2019ve made ourselves the enemy of one another. We\u2019ve lost sight of the fact that we all want the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-writers-block"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apatchworkofthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}