{"id":444,"date":"2026-03-27T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/?p=444"},"modified":"2026-03-27T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:34:28","slug":"america-250th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/2026\/03\/27\/america-250th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s 250th Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As National Chaplain with the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc (USSVI), I write a quarterly article for their <em>American Submariner<\/em> magazine. Here&#8217;s a recent one about America&#8217;s 250th Anniversary:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chaplains-Corner-2025-Qtr3-Americas-250-Anniversary.pdf\">Chaplain&#8217;s Corner 2025-Qtr3 &#8211; America&#8217;s 250 Anniversary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-450 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/USSVI.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"152\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-453 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sandman-Jim-at-2021-USSVI-Conv-161x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sandman-Jim-at-2021-USSVI-Conv-161x300.jpg 161w, https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sandman-Jim-at-2021-USSVI-Conv.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 161px) 100vw, 161px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As National Chaplain with the United States Submarine Veterans, Inc (USSVI), I write a quarterly article for their American Submariner magazine. Here&#8217;s a recent one about America&#8217;s 250th Anniversary: Chaplain&#8217;s Corner 2025-Qtr3 &#8211; America&#8217;s 250 Anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jim-sandman-articles-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimsandman.com\/jim-sandman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}