{"id":39573,"date":"2016-06-05T17:47:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T21:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39573"},"modified":"2016-06-05T17:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T21:52:31","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39573","title":{"rendered":"From the American Experiment to the American Predicament"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">An Open Letter to the American People<\/h1>\n<h2 class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">From the Founding Fathers of the American Republic\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">In order for the American Experiment to begin in earnest there were found upright men of conscience who were truly of high and noble character.\u00a0 Thomas Paine, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Samuel Adams, James Madison, John Jay, George Mason, John Paul Jones, Samuel Huntington, and Marquis de Lafayette are but a few of those truly great men. The sacrifice of hearth and home, livelihood and fortune, position and reputation was quite extraordinary for many of these brave collaborators.<br \/>\n<em><span class=\"s2\">(Source: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=22822\">THE NEW ATLANTIS: Master Plan Of The Ages<\/a>)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=39573\">State of the Nation<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">These great men &#8212; the Founding Fathers of the American Republic &#8212; repeatedly warned the American people of certain developments and patterns, otherwise the fledgling nation would find itself in great jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2016 the United States of America finds itself exactly where the wise founders said we would be unless the citizenry stayed vigilant. \u00a0The following list of warnings could not be a more accurate depiction of the current <strong>&#8220;American Predicament&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39574\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"image004\" width=\"637\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image004.jpg 637w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/image004-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Open Letter to the American People From the Founding Fathers of the American Republic\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}