{"id":555,"date":"2008-07-04T04:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts-on-freedom\/"},"modified":"2008-07-04T04:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T04:16:00","slug":"thoughts-on-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/thoughts-on-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Happy Independence Day to those in America.&nbsp; For those who are in other spots around the globe, I hope you&#8217;re drinking from the cup of freedom:<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Here are some of my thoughts on freedom:<\/P><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Freedom is never free.\n<li>Freedom is a gift that should never be taken for granted.\n<li>Freedom cancels out excuses.\n<li>Freedom should create humility, not arrogance.\n<li>Freedom should be protected and defended.\n<li>Freedom is one part of hope.\n<li>Freedom is not guaranteed.\n<li>See this <A href=\"http:\/\/<object width=\"><A href='<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MJHgMD1S0bg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MJHgMD1S0bg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>&#8216; target=_blank>clip<\/A><\/A> from Bob Marley <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Independence Day to those in America.&nbsp; For those who are in other spots around the globe, I hope you&#8217;re drinking from the cup of freedom: Here are some of my thoughts on freedom: Freedom is never free. Freedom is a gift that should never be taken for granted. Freedom cancels out excuses. Freedom should&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-perspectives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}