{"id":1066,"date":"2013-07-04T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2013-07-03T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T23:21:50","slug":"a-declaration-in-1776","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/a-declaration-in-1776\/","title":{"rendered":"A Declaration in 1776"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1067\" style=\"width: 631px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1067\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/a-declaration-in-1776\/doi\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/doi.jpg?fit=631%2C1443&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"631,1443\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Declaration of Independence\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Declaration of Independence&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Declaration of Independence&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/doi.jpg?fit=447%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1067\" alt=\"Declaration of Independence\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/doi.jpg?resize=631%2C1443\" width=\"631\" height=\"1443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/doi.jpg?w=631&amp;ssl=1 631w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/doi.jpg?resize=65%2C150&amp;ssl=1 65w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/doi.jpg?resize=131%2C300&amp;ssl=1 131w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 631px) 100vw, 631px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Declaration of Independence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 4, 1776 &#8212; When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature&#8217;s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[30,31,66,67],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-history","category-noteworthy","tag-adversity","tag-courage","tag-history-2","tag-politics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-hc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/surveying\/","url_meta":{"origin":1066,"position":0},"title":"WHY SURVEYING?","author":"TonyC","date":"January 5, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"What if Christopher Columbus had not set sail in 1492? 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