{"id":11464,"date":"2011-07-04T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=11464"},"modified":"2011-07-04T13:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:00:56","slug":"god-mend-thine-every-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2011\/07\/god-mend-thine-every-flaw\/","title":{"rendered":"God mend thine every flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to patriotic anthems I do love &#8220;America the Beautiful&#8221;, especially the second stanza.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O beautiful for pilgrim feet<br \/>\nWhose stern impassioned stress<br \/>\nA thoroughfare of freedom beat<br \/>\nAcross the wilderness!<br \/>\nAmerica! America!<br \/>\nGod mend thine every flaw,<br \/>\nConfirm thy soul in self-control,<br \/>\nThy liberty in law! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A patriotic song that allows for critique concerning flaws hits me just right. And I really like &#8220;Confirm thy soul in self-control,  Thy liberty in law! &#8221; A message sorely lacking today.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the sixties and seventies I wasn&#8217;t very patriotic in that I thought there was nothing but flaws.  It took joining the military for non-patriotic reasons and seeing the world to finally come to understand my homeland and to see it in a new light. It is always easy to be complacent and not realize what you have until you have something to compare it to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to patriotic anthems I do love &#8220;America the Beautiful&#8221;, especially the second stanza. O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress A thoroughfare of freedom beat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11465,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}