{"id":58,"date":"2005-08-19T16:41:18","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=58"},"modified":"2005-09-06T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T13:27:33","slug":"heros-and-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"Hero&#8217;s and Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the movie &#8216;A Clear and Present Danger&#8217; and it came to me. We have no hero&#8217;s. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if someone in the U.S. government stood up, and  gave us an honest, truthful perspective on things, while standing on a morally grounded position. Someone who you would know, in your heart, was telling the truth. Not from some <b>paid for<\/b> perspective, not from some religiously biased, self-rightistness. No <i>Spin doctoring<\/i>, but from truth, simple truth.<\/p>\n<p>Watching movies makes me fantasize about a better world, movies like &#8216;An American President&#8217; or &#8216;Dave&#8217; or maybe even like the &#8216;West Wing&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Someday the truth will be a wonderful thing to behold.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was watching the movie &#8216;A Clear and Present Danger&#8217; and it came to me. We have no hero&#8217;s. Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if someone in the U.S. government stood up, and gave us an honest, truthful perspective on things,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=58\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hero&#8217;s and Patriotism<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-patriot-act","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}