{"id":843,"date":"2016-11-08T13:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2016-11-08T14:01:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:01:01","slug":"im-tim-vandergrift-and-i-approve-this-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Tim Vandergrift, and I Approve This Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.textmarks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/image_voting.jpg\" alt=\"vote\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s your right, and your duty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I say this consistently: America is the greatest country in the world, with limitless potential and wonderful ideals and great people.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how this day turns out, America will still stand, as proud and tall as ever, because it is full of Americans&#8211;not politicians, not pundits, not media types, but American <em>citizens.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 501px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cvsflags.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Neil-Armstrong-Moon.jpg\" alt=\"The world watches\" width=\"501\" height=\"527\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are two types of countries in the world, and one of them sent a man to the moon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You know, the people who walked on the moon, helped win two world wars and created the greatest democracy on the planet. <em>Those<\/em> people.<\/p>\n<p>Please remember that as you exercise your right to vote, be of a calm heart, and may your God bless you all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say this consistently: America is the greatest country in the world, with limitless potential and wonderful ideals and great people. No matter how this day turns out, America will still stand, as proud and tall as ever, because it is full of Americans&#8211;not politicians, not pundits, not media types, but American citizens. You know, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/?p=843\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m Tim Vandergrift, and I Approve This Message&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[139,142,140,141],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","tag-america","tag-first-man-on-the-moon","tag-freedom","tag-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timvandergrift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}