{"id":107130,"date":"2020-09-14T13:08:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=107130"},"modified":"2020-09-14T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T20:08:05","slug":"a-bit-of-wisdom-on-the-american-melting-pot-from-ronald-reagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=107130","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Wisdom on the American Melting Pot from Ronald Reagan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;&#8221;I believe that Americans in 1980 are every bit as committed to that vision of a shining &#8220;city on a hill,&#8221; as were those long ago settlers &#8230; These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or liberals; or Democrats or Republicans. They are Americans awed by what has gone before, proud of what for them is still\u2026 a shining city on a hill.&#8221;  ~ Ronald Reagan 1911 \u2013 2004<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reagan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107131\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;&#8221;I believe that Americans in 1980 are every bit as committed to that vision of a shining &#8220;city on a hill,&#8221; as were those long ago settlers &#8230; These visitors to that city on the Potomac do not come as white or black, red or yellow; they are not Jews or Christians; conservatives or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-quotes","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Reagan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}