{"id":511,"date":"2015-03-07T23:26:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecafeprojects.com\/declarationproject\/?page_id=511"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T18:09:52","slug":"essays-and-commentaries-on-the-july-4-1776-declaration-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/?page_id=511","title":{"rendered":"Essays and Commentaries on the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"511\" class=\"elementor elementor-511\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7d529bb1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7d529bb1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4f69d1b4\" data-id=\"4f69d1b4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-50cf7b7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"50cf7b7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"entry-title\">Essays and Commentaries on the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence<\/h3><p>From Frederick Douglass&#8217;s\u00a0scathing critique of American society&#8217;s failure to live up to its billing, to Alison\u00a0Owing&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/alison-owings\/a-radical-suggestion-exci_b_888897.html\">The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com\/2011\/07\/07\/declaration-independence-jeffersons-merciless-indian-savages-and-getting-flamed\">her reply<\/a> in the &#8216;aftermath,&#8217; the posts linked to this page will feature many famous and infamous writings and meditations on our Declaration, as well as some that are not so well known.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essays and Commentaries on the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence From Frederick Douglass&#8217;s\u00a0scathing critique of American society&#8217;s failure to live up to its billing, to Alison\u00a0Owing&#8217;s\u00a0The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence, and her reply in the &#8216;aftermath,&#8217; the posts linked to this page will feature many famous and infamous writings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/511\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/declarationproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}