{"id":3098,"date":"2022-07-04T00:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T06:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:05","slug":"monday-musings-its-just-another-day-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2022\/07\/04\/monday-musings-its-just-another-day-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Musings: It&#8217;s just another day now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/h9j35p4bis791.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/h9j35p4bis791.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"864\" height=\"509\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3099\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always struggled with the day and what it means for the majority of people who live in the United States. So many have never truly been free. I haven&#8217;t celebrated it in more than 20 years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Black people, people of color, indigenous people, and the LGBTQ+ community have not been celebrating the fourth for decades. Today, women no longer have a reason to celebrate. Despite our best efforts, all five groups have always been considered second class citizens, slaves, chattel, or worse. I suppose if you are a heterosexual, white, christian, land-owning male you can go about doing what you always do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeganAnnD\/status\/1540361011349299201\">Source<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always struggled with the day and what it means for the majority of people who live in the United States. So many have never truly been free. I haven&#8217;t celebrated it in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,18,288,299],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-musings","tag-4th-of-july","tag-abortion","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}