{"id":29,"date":"2007-11-05T19:42:05","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T02:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2007-11-05T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T02:47:00","slug":"to-have-met-myself-a-stranger-and-found-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"To have met myself a stranger, and found a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Proud to be American<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you know what you&rsquo;ve done to me?<br \/>\nYou made me happier than I thought I could be<br \/>\nAll my life I&rsquo;ve tried to do<br \/>\nWhat you&rsquo;ve done so easily<\/p>\n<p>You make me proud to be American<br \/>\nYou make me happy to shop at the mall<br \/>\nI&rsquo;ll sit in church and sing with you<br \/>\nI&rsquo;ll dance at the midnight ball<br \/>\nI can be<br \/>\nWhatever you want me to be<\/p>\n<p>Before I met you I always held back<br \/>\nI always had something to prove<br \/>\nI wanted to do something really worthwhile<br \/>\nTo show them that I mattered too<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere I went I always spoke up<br \/>\nEveryone heard what I had to say<br \/>\nWith you I can sit silent and still<br \/>\nAnd thank God for this wonderful day<\/p>\n<p>You make me proud to be American<br \/>\nYou make me happy to shop at the mall<br \/>\nI&rsquo;ll sit in church and sing with you<br \/>\nI&rsquo;ll dance at the midnight ball<br \/>\nI can be<br \/>\nWhatever you want me to be<\/p>\n<p>Before I answered every word I heard<br \/>\nWith something sarcastic and mean<br \/>\nYou showed me a side of myself<br \/>\nThat was nicer than I&rsquo;d ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>An eight-hour day was enough for me<br \/>\nIt was as much as I could take<br \/>\nBut for you I&rsquo;d work twelve or more<br \/>\nI&rsquo;d do anything in your name&rsquo;s sake<\/p>\n<p>You make me proud to be American<br \/>\nYou make me happy to shop at the mall<br \/>\nI&rsquo;ll sit in church and sing with you<br \/>\nI&rsquo;ll dance at the midnight ball<br \/>\nI can be<br \/>\nWhatever you want me to be<\/p>\n<p>What do you want me to be?<\/p>\n<p>What do you want me to be?<\/p>\n<p>12\/10\/2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proud to be American Do you know what you&rsquo;ve done to me? You made me happier than I thought I could be All my life I&rsquo;ve tried to do What you&rsquo;ve done so easily You make me proud to be American You make me happy to shop at the mall I&rsquo;ll sit in church and sing with you I&rsquo;ll dance <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=29\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}