{"id":116,"date":"2026-07-05T15:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/?p=116"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:06:53","slug":"appreciate-what-we-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/appreciate-what-we-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Appreciate what we have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-117\" src=\"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/america_250_eagle-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/america_250_eagle-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/america_250_eagle.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Take a moment this day to appreciate the reality of the United States of America. Does it have flaws, of course. Do we fix them over time? Yes for 250 years we have done so. While some complain of &#8220;oppression&#8221; they have the freedom and agency to complain so. While they fear totalitarianism, they live in a country where they can freely express that fear. There is nowhere on earth or in history where a people have been more uniformly prosperous, technology advanced, politically free and able to pursue their dreams. Whether their dreams are of individual liberty as our <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Founders?src=hashtag_click\">#Founders<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> envisioned or the dependence on government programs and doles we are free to do so. We allow people to call for our own destruction, freely, in the street. We allow people born with little advantage to succeed beyond their wildest dreams. The United States of America if the most free country in the history of civilization. This is historical, economic and political fact. Are we perfect? No. We ARE free to pursue perfection though, through our <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1loqt21\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/AmericanFreedom?src=hashtag_click\">#AmericanFreedom<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">. <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-3s2u2q r-1loqt21\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/America250?src=hashtag_click\">#America250<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"r-4qtqp9 r-dflpy8 r-k4bwe5 r-pp5qcn r-h9hxbl r-3t4u6i\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/abs.twimg.com\/hashflags\/USA250CustomLike2026\/USA250CustomLike2026.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a moment this day to appreciate the reality of the United States of America. Does it have flaws, of course. Do we fix them&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/appreciate-what-we-have\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appreciate what we have<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civics","category-culture","category-history","category-opinion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanlearning.us\/afn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}