{"id":736342,"date":"2026-07-01T06:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736342\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:10:09","slug":"americans-reflect-on-the-state-of-the-nation-in-its-250th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/736342\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans reflect on the state of the nation in its 250th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">How is the US doing in 2026? The BBC asked Americans across the country &#8211; including in California, New York, Texas, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts and Washington DC &#8211; about how they feel the country is doing in its 250th year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Video produced and edited by Meiying Wu<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 jLDVdT\">Filmed by Meiying Wu, Ang\u00e9lica Casas, Blanca Estrada, Madeline Gerber, Katy Bailes, Andrew Sarge Herbert and Ian Druce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How is the US doing in 2026? The BBC asked Americans across the country &#8211; including in California,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-736342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}