{"id":9437,"date":"2017-02-01T09:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=9437"},"modified":"2017-02-01T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:55:35","slug":"no-the-american-dream-will-not-go-silently-into-the-night-mr-bannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/9437","title":{"rendered":"No&#8230;The American Dream Will Not Go Silently Into The Night Mr. Bannon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it is bigger, richer, more urgently felt than you could ever know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" align=\"center\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HtBZvl7dIu4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One thing I love about this ad is the open acknowledgement of how immigrants were treated even back then. It&#8217;s so refreshingly honest about our history compared to the rainbows and unicorns version I got back in early grade school. We were so proud of our little melting pot back then&#8230;back when we were competing with the Soviet Union for the hearts and minds of the rest of the world. Not so much anymore.<\/p>\n<p>If a certain German someone and I were still on emailing terms I would have loved to share this with him. But now I&#8217;m not even sure he&#8217;d appreciate the sentiment in it. It&#8217;s one thing to be determined to follow your dreams. It&#8217;s another to be determined not to have any. But some of us still believe in our dreams&#8230;rough hewn and broken though they may be&#8230; Here&#8217;s to you Herr Busch. Here&#8217;s to you Herr Anheuser. <em>Prost!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;it is bigger, richer, more urgently felt than you could ever know&#8230; &nbsp; One thing I love about this ad is the open acknowledgement of how immigrants were treated even back then. It&#8217;s so refreshingly honest about our history compared to the rainbows and unicorns version I got back in early grade school. We were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[148,99,78],"class_list":["post-9437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","tag-the-america-that-was","tag-the-human-status","tag-the-struggle-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}