{"id":12566,"date":"2010-07-02T11:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2010-07-02T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T01:19:00","slug":"happy-4th-of-july-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12566\/happy-4th-of-july-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 4th of July Weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to take a brief moment to extend a Happy 4th of July greeting to all in the BH community.\u00a0 I was born and raised in El Salvador in the midst of an infamous civil war (infamous for its use of children as pawns in the war machine), migrating to the US in my teen years and becoming a citizen while serving in armed forces.\u00a0 I have had the opportunity to travel the world for work and leisure and I can wholeheartedly say that there is no other country I&#8217;d rather call home than the good ol&#8217; US of A.\u00a0 Regardless of what cynicism is thrown out there about American greed, blah blah blah, I believe and embrace the principles and values on which our nation founded.\u00a0 Have a Happy Independence weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/flag.jpg\" alt=\"american flag\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/flag.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/flag-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to take a brief moment to extend a Happy 4th of July greeting to all in the BH community.\u00a0 I was born and raised in El Salvador in the midst of an infamous civil war (infamous for its use of children as pawns in the war machine), migrating to the US in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7650,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7650\/the-eight-hour-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":12566,"position":0},"title":"The Eight Hour Day","author":"Jeff Brown","date":"April 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Some on these pages, me included, offer various methods, systems if you prefer, to produce a larger and more reliable income in the real estate business. 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