{"id":3852,"date":"2021-07-15T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:47:44","slug":"the-bible-in-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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These are the times that try men\u2019s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country: but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered: yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.<\/div>
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(What better time then our Independence Day 2021 to take a look at a true patriot who fought to free us from the tyranny of a European country which brave men and women fled to find FREEDOM in the 1700’s. Thomas Paine was this man, who inspired with just one of his writings – Common Sense – great men such as Washington, Jefferson and Adams, to name a few, that all must band together and take a very strong stand, fight as never before as more and more of our freedoms were being not only threatened but taken away.<\/div>
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These statements are as true today as they were when written. His writings were the precursor of our most important document, The Declaration of Independence.)<\/div><\/div>\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\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the times that try men\u2019s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country: but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered: yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. (What better time then our Independence Day 2021 to take a look at a true patriot who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[97,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3861,"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thealicereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}