{"id":11842,"date":"2011-10-28T18:26:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11842"},"modified":"2011-10-28T18:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T22:26:53","slug":"happy-birthday-lady-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11842\/happy-birthday-lady-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Lady Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/post\/the-statue-of-liberty-turns-125\/2011\/10\/27\/gIQAnRm1MM_blog.html?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\">Ed O\u2019Keefe<\/a> reports on the 125<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of the Statue of Liberty.\u00a0 Here\u2019s his summary of today\u2019s festivities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Park Service<\/a> is hosting a series of events Friday to mark the Oct. 28, 1886 dedication of one of the nation\u2019s most iconic landmarks. In an effort to recreate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/stli\/125th_anniversary.htm\" target=\"_blank\">some of the original festivities<\/a> (which included an appearance by President Grover Cleveland), the U.S. Coast Guard plans to sponsor a flotilla of vessels, the New York Fire Department fireboats plan to provide a water spout display and the Park Service is hosting a morning concert.<\/p>\n<p>Later, in a nod to the 21st century, officials plan to unveil a new \u201ctorch webcam\u201d providing viewers with views of New York Harbor and the statue from within Lady Liberty\u2019s torch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Lady Liberty has also hosted some famous speeches, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7rNHZh3Vu0Y\" target=\"_blank\">this memorable 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July jewel<\/a> from Ronald Reagan 25 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>As the Occupy fill-in-the-blank mob-ocracy exposes our great cities to squalor, let Reagan&#8217;s speech and today&#8217;s festivities remind you there is an alternative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed O\u2019Keefe reports on the 125th birthday of the Statue of Liberty.\u00a0 Here\u2019s his summary of today\u2019s festivities: The National Park Service is hosting a series of events Friday to mark the Oct. 28, 1886 dedication of one of the nation\u2019s most iconic landmarks. In an effort to recreate some of the original festivities (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3118,456,3157],"class_list":["post-11842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-statue-of-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11845,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11842\/revisions\/11845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}