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Here is wishing \u00a0you and yours a wonderful 4th of July weekend! \u00a0I hope you are surrounding by family and friends, \u00a0(I am!!!), \u00a0and that \u00a0you will enjoy the remembrance of the wonderful country our forefathers left to us! I pray that we will all re-committ to maintaining the great country we are privileged to live in today. \u00a0A special thank you to all those that have served and protected us! \u00a0As I am surrounded by my entire family, I feel especially blessed!<\/p>\n
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May God continue to Bless our nation and may those that are called by His name seek His blessings! \u00a0Have a great weekend!<\/p>\n
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In Him,<\/p>\n
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the pilgrim<\/p>\n
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The bear was photographed at Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska, many years ago with film!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here is wishing \u00a0you and yours a wonderful 4th of July weekend! \u00a0I hope you are surrounding by family and friends, \u00a0(I am!!!), \u00a0and that \u00a0you will enjoy the remembrance of the wonderful country our forefathers left to us! I pray that we will all re-committ to maintaining the great country we are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14497,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14494\/revisions\/14497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}