{"id":264455,"date":"2020-08-12T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=264455"},"modified":"2020-08-12T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:14:10","slug":"why-i-love-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/12\/why-i-love-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems to be in vogue to be anti-American, or Anti-American government, or anti America &#8230; anything, especially if you&#8217;re non-American (European) or if you&#8217;re part of the Liberal-Left Intelligentsia of America. For example, the funny bias:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If you are an intellectual or part of the elite class in America, you are not allowed to openly say: &#8220;I love America, and I love being an American&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Very strange. Why this bias? Let us unravel it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why are Americans so anti-America?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Truth be told, America is cruel. Unfair, unjust, racist, classist, all the -isms. And America is pro-War, and pro-hegemony over the planet. This is facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of people came to America (more recently) as immigrants. A lot of new Americans (and even older Americans) have faced injustice, discrimination, and getting fucked over. It happens allllll the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And for the few who do succeed &#8212; combination of luck, hard work, being at the right place at the right time, being offered the right opportunities, and having the right community or social-circle or adult figures who helped guide them. I know for myself, as my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/sebastiancalvo.com\">Sebastian Calvo<\/a> says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>If we think about success in life like being two rotating discs, with small holes in each &#8230; I was able to fall perfectly through these small holes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems to be in vogue to be anti-American, or Anti-American government, or anti America &#8230; anything, especially if you&#8217;re non-American (European) or if you&#8217;re part of the Liberal-Left Intelligentsia of America. For example, the funny bias: If you are an intellectual or part of the elite class in America, you are not allowed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/american-eagle-scaled.jpg?fit=2480%2C3712&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264455"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264461,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264455\/revisions\/264461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}