{"id":863,"date":"2008-12-16T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T00:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2008-12-18T08:20:24","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T16:20:24","slug":"this-proves-i-am-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/16\/this-proves-i-am-an-american\/","title":{"rendered":"This proves I am an American"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this in Amy’s Social Studies book:<\/p>\n

Many inventions of the Industrial Revolution simply made life easier. When Alexis de Tocqueville of France visited the United States in the early 1830’s, he identified what he called a very American quality:<\/p>\n

[Americans want] to be always making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, and to satisfy the smallest wants [desires] without effort and almost without cost.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, from Democracy in America.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

—<\/p>\n

Yup, that’s me. I want a trouble-free, easy and comfortable life.<\/p>\n

I submitted an invention to the Mother of Invention<\/a> contest, but I didn’t win. I think my idea didn’t have a chance because it doesn’t have the “make the world a better place” type of usage, but it’s still a great idea.<\/p>\n

If you want to know what it is, and especially if you have VC, sign a NDA and I’ll tell you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this in Amy’s Social Studies book: Many inventions of the Industrial Revolution simply made life easier. When Alexis de Tocqueville of France visited the United States in the early 1830’s, he identified what he called a very American quality: [Americans want] to be always making life more comfortable and convenient, to avoid trouble, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}