{"id":1277,"date":"2017-02-28T05:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2017-02-28T05:38:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T10:38:42","slug":"feb-28-words-from-the-1st-u-s-president-a-mandate-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 28 \u2013 Words from the 1st U S President: A Mandate to continue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Feb. 28 \u2013 Words from the 1st U S President: A Mandate to continue!\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1277\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/022817_1038_Feb28Words1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 72pt\"><span style=\"color:#222222; font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt; background-color:white\"><em>&#8220;We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.&#8221; <\/em>George Washington<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#222222; font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt; background-color:white\">I love the United States of America.  I love the ideal that our founding fathers conceived that it should be a place where bigotry and superstition have eliminated.  I lament that both are still present.  Sometimes it appears to me that bigotry is growing rather than dying.  I pray we can live up to this sentiment expressed by George Washington.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8220;We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.&#8221; George Washington \u00a0 I love the United States of America. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1277\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Feb. 28 \u2013 Words from the 1st U S President: A Mandate to continue!<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}