{"id":1668,"date":"2014-09-17T19:53:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2014-09-17T21:38:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T01:38:41","slug":"happy-birthday-to-all-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1668","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday- to all of us!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Happy<\/a>Today is the 227th Birthday of the US Constitution<\/a>!! \u00a0My Feline Companion (FC) would like to wish the Constitution a Happy Birthday, just look at that enthusiasm!<\/p>\n

Well, I’m excited, even though I lost a bet. \u00a0I often sit on my soap box – and today I have to eat a great big slice of humble pie: I lost a bet. \u00a0I didn’t realize that George Washington had signed the Constitution. \u00a0I knew he had signed the Articles of Association, which banned among other things; tea from England. \u00a0But here I have to publicly acknowledge my error. \u00a0Just for the record, my erroneous ways were pointed out to me by Manfred, a co-worker. \u00a0I owe him a cup of coffee (c’mon; you thought I’d bet something else? \u00a0Obviously you haven’t been on my blog long enough!)<\/em><\/p>\n

How about\u00a0Roger Sherman<\/a>, the delegate from Connecticut, Not only did he sign the Constitution, he also signed the Articles of Association, the Declaration of Independence, and the Articles of Confederation. \u00a0He had it going on as one of the founding fathers<\/a>, I wonder how many others haven’t heard about him?<\/p>\n

I recommend each of us to take a moment out of our day today and say “Thanks.” \u00a0Thanks to some forward thinking folks, while they didn’t solve all the problems around them, they put in place some remarkable framework that could be built upon, and is still the ruling document of our land.<\/p>\n

I think our current legislatures could learn a thing or two from this document.<\/p>\n

Happy B-Day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is the 227th Birthday of the US Constitution!! \u00a0My Feline Companion (FC) would like to wish the Constitution a Happy Birthday, just look at that enthusiasm! Well, I’m excited, even though I lost a bet. \u00a0I often sit on … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","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":[4,16],"tags":[50,79,82,60],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rants-raves","tag-america","tag-doing-good","tag-rights","tag-simple-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15086,"url":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/15086","url_meta":{"origin":1668,"position":0},"title":"Unity, Strength and Fairness… NOT!!!","author":"DR D","date":"February 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Mr. Trump has been in office for just over one month, and his stated theme for this presidency is \"Unity, Strength, and Fairness\" (his words, not mine). 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