{"id":323,"date":"2017-03-05T19:15:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T00:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2017-03-05T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T01:19:47","slug":"the-profound-words-of-a-true-american-president-who-understod-the-meaning-of-liberty-and-fredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/323","title":{"rendered":"The Profound Words Of A True American President Who Understood The Meaning Of Liberty And Freedom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please listen to the words of President John F. Kennedy. Words spoken over a half century ago but specifically and especially relevant today. In the days of the Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qvSD6If3zds?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please listen to the words of President John F. Kennedy. Words spoken over a half century ago but specifically and especially relevant today. In the days of the Trump and his administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[21,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-government","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-5d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":256,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/256","url_meta":{"origin":323,"position":0},"title":"When A President Emboldens Haters&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"February 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It happened last week in St Louis and Saturday it happened again in New York. 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On Presidents' Day 2017, as we pay respect to President's of the past as well as\u00a0witnessing\u00a0widespread dissatisfaction\u00a0and protests\u00a0of our current siting president,\u00a0the words following now seem\u00a0\u00a0prescient If making sense of Donald Trump requires regular reminders\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Government&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":360,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/360","url_meta":{"origin":323,"position":2},"title":"Trump Quietly Installing Hundreds of Officials Across the Federal Bureaucracy&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"March 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"President Trump\u00a0may be slow in filling government positions requiring senate confirmation but such has not been the case for more obscure but\u00a0still important jobs spreading across the\u00a0federal bureaucracy\u00a0. Since taking office Trump has filled more than 400 of the approximate \u00a0520 staffers the administration said it was hiring for \"beachhead\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/education"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":554,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/554","url_meta":{"origin":323,"position":3},"title":"Right-Wing Conservative Boilerplate, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)","author":"Les","date":"March 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We know we shouldn't have, but, we just couldn't help responding to Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) opinion piece in THE HILL. A Trump surrogate and highly partisan right-wing conservative his boilerplate made our\u00a0blood boil. Truth became stranger to republican party years ago and Trump and his surrogates have simply heightened\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Government&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":461,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/461","url_meta":{"origin":323,"position":4},"title":"THE ART OF WILLFUL SELF-DELUSION","author":"OCTOPUS","date":"March 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Motivated reasoning and cognitive bias are terms used by psychosocial researchers to describe a tendency among people to filter information, turn off eyes and ears, and consider only the evidence they want to hear. Everyday in our local newspaper, I\u00a0read letters to the editor. Letters from hotheads. 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