{"id":945,"date":"2015-07-06T13:29:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/?p=945"},"modified":"2015-07-06T13:29:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T18:29:40","slug":"hidden-stories-about-our-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/hidden-stories-about-our-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Stories About Our Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th of July is one of our country\u2019s beloved traditions when we enjoy the great outdoors and some great grilling. Yesterday, I joined my family as they gathered to watch Team USA win the Women\u2019s World Cup. This holiday has traditionally been a time to celebrate our victories as a nation, to commemorate our independence\u00a0and to express\u00a0our patriotism. It meant one thing in 1776. Today, what does it mean in our collective consciousness? What does it mean to be an American, to value our individual liberties and at the same time, acknowledge that others share that same freedom with us?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-946\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/ted_freedom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-946\" src=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/ted_freedom.jpg\" alt=\"Wes Moore, Jody Williams &amp; Sebastian Junger\" width=\"600\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wes Moore, Jody Williams &amp; Sebastian Junger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-945-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/nicecast-archived-audio-20150706-1017.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/nicecast-archived-audio-20150706-1017.mp3\">https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/nicecast-archived-audio-20150706-1017.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/nicecast-archived-audio-20150706-1017.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Listen<\/strong><\/a> to the stories of three people who fight for America\u2019s freedom. They tell us what the work means to them\u2013\u2013not romanticized, not idealized. It\u2019s what most of us don\u2019t see, or don\u2019t know about, or sometimes even choose to ignore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th of July is one of our country\u2019s beloved traditions when we enjoy the great outdoors and some great grilling. Yesterday, I joined my family as they gathered to watch Team USA win the Women\u2019s World Cup. This holiday has traditionally been a time to celebrate our victories as a nation, to commemorate our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/06\/hidden-stories-about-our-freedom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hidden Stories About Our Freedom<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[3,47,86],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barkadacircle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}