{"id":4586,"date":"2013-07-02T20:34:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T19:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peakepro.com\/?p=4586"},"modified":"2013-07-03T19:50:39","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T18:50:39","slug":"what-american-independence-day-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/4586-what-american-independence-day-means-to-me.html","title":{"rendered":"What American Independence Day Means to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/07\/fireworks-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Fireworks\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4587\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; border: 0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/07\/fireworks-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/07\/fireworks-1024x748.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/files\/2013\/07\/fireworks.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-peake\/celebrating-america-the-s_b_3528344.html\" target=\"_blank\">my latest entry for The Huffington Post<\/a>, I take a look at the American tradition of celebrating our independence from Britain on the Fourth of July. As you can imagine, though I do miss the hot dogs and sparklers, living in Britain now causes me to question much of what I once took for granted as unquestionably true.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the way one might root for a local sporting team, why might this particular national celebration still matter? I took a look around me for suitable metaphors to characterise the promise of the American spirit, and found one in the very place that I have spent most of my technology career: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/robert-peake\/celebrating-america-the-s_b_3528344.html\" target=\"_blank\">the start-up company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Happy (Almost) Fourth of July to my fellow countrymen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest entry for The Huffington Post, I take a look at the American tradition of celebrating our independence from Britain on the Fourth of July. As you can imagine, though I do miss the hot dogs and sparklers, living in Britain now causes me to question much of what I once took for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/archives\/4586-what-american-independence-day-means-to-me.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What American Independence Day Means to Me<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1268,13],"tags":[58,63,576,846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertpeake.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}