{"id":344,"date":"2009-09-07T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:30:35","slug":"salute-to-workers-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Salute to Workers Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museum.state.il.us\/exhibits\/athome\/1920\/sideby\/work.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.museum.state.il.us\/exhibits\/athome\/1920\/sideby\/sr-work.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Today is Labor Day, a United States holiday <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_day\" target=\"_blank\">formally established<\/a> by Congress in 1894 to honor workers throughout the nation.&#160; We celebrated today by doing some yard work and then having a delightful family gathering at our son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home.&#160; We flew the flag and relaxed and generally had a good time.<\/p>\n<p>But we also pause today to salute all the people who work for a living, with their hands, their minds and their hearts, in whatever occupation they are in.&#160; We are grateful to live in a nation that offers such great opportunity to so many.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>My dad likes to say that we stand on the shoulders of giants who have gone before.&#160; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m grateful for the hard working men and women upon whose shoulders I stand, those great souls who did so much so my family can be where we are today.<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts ache for those who are unemployed at this time.&#160; We have been there.&#160; We know the feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy, the fear of not knowing where the next paycheck will come from, the concern about what tomorrow might bring.&#160; We share our thoughts and prayers with you today, in hope for a brighter future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:fbde2bfa-97cd-4c16-b31e-1ad26069de42\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/LaborDay\" rel=\"tag\">LaborDay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Work\" rel=\"tag\">Work<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Labor Day, a United States holiday formally established by Congress in 1894 to honor workers throughout the nation.&#160; We celebrated today by doing some yard work and then having a delightful family gathering at our son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home.&#160; We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=344\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[60,61],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-article","tag-laborday","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}