{"id":922103,"date":"2026-07-24T01:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/can-a-divided-us-celebrate-its-250th-together\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T01:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:12:28","slug":"can-a-divided-us-celebrate-its-250th-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/can-a-divided-us-celebrate-its-250th-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a divided US celebrate its 250th together?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the White House will host mixed martial arts fights \u2013 one in a series of 250th anniversary events that so far haven\u2019t generated broad excitement or unity. Some Americans are already seeing the U.S. semiquincentennial as a missed opportunity&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2026\/0613\/america-250-anniversary-ufc-cage-fight?icid=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Simon Montlake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the White House will host mixed martial arts fights \u2013 one in a series of 250th anniversary events that so far haven\u2019t generated broad excitement or unity. Some Americans are already seeing the U.S. semiquincentennial as a missed opportunity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3253,33088,192],"tags":[6208,46109],"class_list":["post-922103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrate","category-divided","category-sports","tag-celebrate","tag-divided"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}