{"id":2530,"date":"2009-02-09T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2009-02-10T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T02:42:12","slug":"america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were out for a late night walk. I happened to look up at one of the downtown bank buildings that is occupied by a branch of one of this country&#8217;s biggest banks. &#8220;Look at that!&#8221; I said to Carol.<\/p>\n<p>Five stories above the street, the internally-lit sign on the bank building said, &#8220;Ban America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We both marveled at it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You almost wonder if it was intentional,&#8221; said Carol. &#8220;It&#8217;s just too perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/banamerica.jpg\" title=\"Ban America\" width=\"283\" height=\"181\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were out for a late night walk. I happened to look up at one of the downtown bank buildings that is occupied by a branch of one of this country&#8217;s biggest banks. &#8220;Look at that!&#8221; I said to Carol. Five stories above the street, the internally-lit sign on the bank building said, &#8220;Ban America.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-bedford-mass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}