{"id":6839,"date":"2020-08-01T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:04:11","slug":"the-american-ideal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/the-american-ideal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American ideal is not a thing or even a state of things but an idea &#8211; a belief we are all created with equal worth, and equally entitled to pursue our best course as we see it, as long as we don&#8217;t interfere with someone else&#8217;s right to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve never fully lived up to that ideal &#8211; never can. It is an unattainable beacon to guide our path, not a destination at which we can ever arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes we&#8217;ve set a mark straight for it and other times we&#8217;ve drifted far afield. But the light is bright, the direction true, and it is easiest to see in the darkest night &#8211; showing us the way out of the wilderness toward a greater good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American ideal is not a thing or even a state of things but an idea &#8211; a belief we are all created with equal worth, and equally entitled to pursue our best course as we see it, as long as we don&#8217;t interfere with someone else&#8217;s right to do the same. We&#8217;ve never fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-1Mj","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6841,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions\/6841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}