{"id":1474,"date":"2026-07-06T01:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/06\/independence-day-the-founders-signed-a-declaration-with-no-proof-it-would-work\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:55:32","slug":"independence-day-the-founders-signed-a-declaration-with-no-proof-it-would-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/2026\/07\/06\/independence-day-the-founders-signed-a-declaration-with-no-proof-it-would-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day. The founders signed a declaration with no proof it would work,\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day. The founders signed a declaration with no proof it would work, funded by believers, executed under fire. History&#8217;s greatest startup story. Happy 4th.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Originally posted on X (Twitter)<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independence Day. The founders signed a declaration with no proof it would work, funded by believers, executed under fire. History&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-x-posts","post_format-post-format-aside","wpcat-19-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakamsani.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}