{"id":117684,"date":"2026-07-04T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117684"},"modified":"2026-07-04T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T20:53:17","slug":"117684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117684","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The American flag existed long before Donald Trump, and it\u2019ll still be here long after him. <\/p>\n<p>If your patriotism rises and falls based on who\u2019s in the White House, maybe your allegiance is to politics\u2014not the country. <\/p>\n<p>The flag represents the nation and its people, not whichever\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mike Bales \ud83e\udee1\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@MikeBales) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MikeBales\/status\/2073356933742919796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American flag existed long before Donald Trump, and it\u2019ll still be here long after him. If your patriotism rises and falls based on who\u2019s in the White House, maybe your allegiance is to politics\u2014not the country. The flag represents the nation and its people, not whichever\u2026 &mdash; Mike Bales \ud83e\udee1\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@MikeBales) July 4, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117685,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117684\/revisions\/117685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}