{"id":366,"date":"2009-10-06T19:29:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2009-10-06T19:29:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:29:18","slug":"john-f-kennedy-ask-what-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"John F. Kennedy: Ask What You Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline\" title=\"John F. Kennedy\" alt=\"John F. Kennedy\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/3\/32\/JohnFKennedy.png\/240px-JohnFKennedy.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the glow from that fire can truly light the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you\u00e2\u20ac\u201dask what you can do for your country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God&#8217;s work must truly be our own.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">John F. Kennedy<\/a>, 35th President of the United States. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/124\/pres56.html\" target=\"_blank\">Inaugural Address<\/a>, Friday, January 20, 1961.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b80a0834-baab-4469-9b85-45aea74f80de\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Del.icio.us Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Freedom\" rel=\"tag\">Freedom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/Service\" rel=\"tag\">Service<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/popular\/God\" rel=\"tag\">God<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI welcome it. I do not believe that any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/?p=366\">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":[9],"tags":[28,29,75],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom-quote","tag-freedom","tag-god","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilovefreedom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}