{"id":652,"date":"2006-02-20T06:25:42","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T06:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=652"},"modified":"2006-02-20T06:25:42","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T06:25:42","slug":"i_am_an_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"I am an American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I AM AN AMERICAN AND&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; I WANT COMMUNITY<br \/>\n&#8211; I WANT NATIONAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY<br \/>\n&#8211; I WANT RESPECT FOR OTHERS DIFFERENT THAN OURSELVES<br \/>\n&#8211; I WANT FREEDOM FROM CULTURAL INSECURITY<br \/>\n&#8211; I WANT FREEDOM FROM GREED AS AN ECONOMIC M.O.<br \/>\n&#8211; I WANT PEACE!<br \/>\n&#8211; I DO NOT WANT EMPIRE! NO AMERICAN EMPIRE!<br \/>\n&#8211; I DO NOT WANT RABID-CONSUMERISM<br \/>\n&#8211; I DO NOT WANT HYPER-INDIVIDUALISM<br \/>\n&#8211; I DO NOT WANT ISOLATION<br \/>\nI am an American, and I do not want the continuation of the propagation of the worst of us at home and abroad.  I am a conservative (albeit a progressive one), and I am tired of the bitter rancor, the intentional polarization for the sake of ideology, and a zero-sum mentality.  I am a Christian, and I am tired of arrogant fundamentalism (whether from the liberal or conservative perspective).<br \/>\nI am an American, but what am I first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I AM AN AMERICAN AND&#8230; &#8211; I WANT COMMUNITY &#8211; I WANT NATIONAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY &#8211; I WANT RESPECT FOR OTHERS DIFFERENT THAN OURSELVES &#8211; I WANT FREEDOM FROM CULTURAL INSECURITY &#8211; I WANT FREEDOM FROM GREED AS AN ECONOMIC M.O. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=652\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politicsculture","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}