{"id":2381,"date":"2021-07-02T19:14:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2021-07-02T19:14:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:14:40","slug":"first-vote-for-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2381","title":{"rendered":"First Vote for Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, we talked about what happened on July 1, 1776 \u2014 the Continental Congress re-convened for the purpose of adopting the <em>Lee Resolution<\/em> for independence. They didn\u2019t actually get down to business until the following day \u2014 today\u2019s day in history, July 2, 1776\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>July 2, 1776 is kind of interesting\u2026. Lee\u2019s resolution calling for independence was approved by 12 of the 13 colonies, making it the Continental Congress\u2019 first vote for independence. The formal Declaration of Independence wasn\u2019t adopted until a couple of days later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luckily for us, the colonists found a way to put differences aside and join together to work for a common goal. Sad to say that on this July 2, if Congress had to come together for that common goal of independence, we\u2019d probably all be driving on the left side of the road\u2026.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, we talked about what happened on July 1, 1776 \u2014 the Continental Congress re-convened for the purpose of adopting the Lee Resolution for independence. They didn\u2019t actually get down to business until the following day \u2014 today\u2019s day in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}