{"id":602,"date":"2005-07-04T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-04T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/04\/shaking-off-the-bonds-of-colonial-oppression\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T14:46:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T14:46:18","slug":"shaking-off-the-bonds-of-colonial-oppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/shaking-off-the-bonds-of-colonial-oppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking off the bonds of colonial oppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th July. Independence Day. Means everything to Americans, tit all to anyone else (including us Brits, who lost a bunch of our prime colonies thanks to the thing and now have to pay through the nose to have a nice smoke.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/national_archives_experience\/charters\/declaration.html\">We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unless, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g8\/story\/0,13365,1520827,00.html\">you&#8217;re African<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 4th July. Independence Day. Means everything to Americans, tit all to anyone else (including us Brits, who lost a bunch of our prime colonies thanks to the thing and now have to pay through the nose to have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/07\/shaking-off-the-bonds-of-colonial-oppression\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}