{"id":14690,"date":"2026-06-02T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?page_id=14690"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:29:34","slug":"grades-7-8-essay-winner-gabriel-z","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?page_id=14690","title":{"rendered":"Grades 7-8 Essay Winner: Gabriel Z."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GABRIEL-1024x677.png\" alt=\"banner announce grades 7-8 essay winner\" class=\"wp-image-14691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GABRIEL-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GABRIEL-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GABRIEL-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GABRIEL-624x413.png 624w, https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GABRIEL.png 1027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Does America Mean to You?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To me, America means being free.<br>To have an education,<br>Living in a great nation,<br>The land of Liberty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The country of freedom has no negatives.<br>Following dreams, across the land,<br>People joined equal, together they stand,<br>This nation, forever it lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We all have a separate voice<br>Everyone equal, all joined together,<br>no matter the race, the religion, the color.<br>This is the reason we rejoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let this nation always stand,<br>United hearts, together, free<br>With equal rights for all to see,<br>America &#8211; this promised land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?page_id=14680\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?page_id=14680\">Back to main page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Does America Mean to You? To me, America means being free.To have an education,Living in a great nation,The land of Liberty. The country of freedom has no negatives.Following dreams, across the land,People joined equal, together they stand,This nation, forever it lives. We all have a separate voiceEveryone equal, all joined together,no matter the race, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14690","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14690"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14721,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14690\/revisions\/14721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}