{"id":642,"date":"2014-10-30T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T10:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abhinav.spsdarj.org\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-03-29T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T20:06:13","slug":"president-thomas-whitmores-speech-from-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/2014\/10\/president-thomas-whitmores-speech-from-independence-day\/","title":{"rendered":"President Thomas Whitmore&#8217;s speech from Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QoLywiaM6PA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Good morning.\u00a0[turns on mic]\u00a0Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can&#8217;t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it&#8217;s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom. Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution\u2026 but from annihilation. We&#8217;re fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We&#8217;re going to live on! We&#8217;re going to survive! Today we celebrate\u00a0our\u00a0Independence Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning.\u00a0[turns on mic]\u00a0Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world, and you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. Mankind. That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can&#8217;t be consumed by our petty differences anymore&#8230;.<\/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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[191],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-motivate","tag-presidential-speech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KGvB-am","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":507,"url":"https:\/\/abhinavkr.com\/musings\/2014\/08\/inspirational-quotes\/","url_meta":{"origin":642,"position":0},"title":"Inspirational Quotes","author":"Abhinav","date":"August 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Never give up on what you really want to do. 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