{"id":219,"date":"2014-07-03T20:38:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T13:13:54","slug":"celebrating-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/celebrating-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Preferred-Factory.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-226\" src=\"http:\/\/preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Preferred-Factory-1024x683.gif\" alt=\"Preferred-Factory\" width=\"406\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Preferred-Factory-1024x683.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Preferred-Factory-300x200.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Preferred-Factory-624x416.gif 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/span>Danbury, CT &#8211; Here at Preferred Utilities, we are celebrating the independence of the United States and the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. The entrepreneurial spirit of our forefathers echoes down to us through the beautifully brave words of their fateful declaration: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That was 1776.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in\u00a01920, we&#8217;ve been living the American dream here at Preferred ever since. We were there when\u00a0America\u2019s heavy manufacturing was once a source of national pride. Remember &#8220;Rosie the Riveter&#8221; \u00a0during World War II ? Remember the the huge factories that once shaped the skylines of cities like Cleveland and Pittsburgh? Remember when America produced more manufactured goods than any other country?<a href=\"http:\/\/preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/We-Can-Do-It-Rosie-the-Riveter-Wallpaper-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-223\" src=\"http:\/\/preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/We-Can-Do-It-Rosie-the-Riveter-Wallpaper-2-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"Rosie the Riveter\" width=\"327\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/We-Can-Do-It-Rosie-the-Riveter-Wallpaper-2-1024x714.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/We-Can-Do-It-Rosie-the-Riveter-Wallpaper-2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/We-Can-Do-It-Rosie-the-Riveter-Wallpaper-2-624x435.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot has changed since then. Manufacturing in America is no longer a source of national pride. The old factories are gone, and we&#8217;ve been surpassed as the world&#8217;s leading manufacturer.\u00a0Why? Because manufacturers realized that cheaper labor existed overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Preferred Utilities never left. We&#8217;ve weathered the ups and the downs: depressions, world wars, economic recessions. We stay in America because we believe in America. That is why we proudly place the America flag on our products. Every time we\u00a0etch those words &#8220;Made in America&#8221;\u00a0on a burner or a boiler product, we rekindle the fire of the American\u00a0manufacturing spirit.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t been easy or cheap&#8211;but that never stopped our forefathers from fighting for what they believed in. This attitude is no better described than in this letter from John Adams, to his wife, dated 2 July 1776:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. &#8212; Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/made-in-america.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-220\" src=\"http:\/\/preferred-mfg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/made-in-america.gif\" alt=\"made-in-america\" width=\"712\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danbury, CT &#8211; Here at Preferred Utilities, we are celebrating the independence of the United States and the freedoms we enjoy as Americans. The entrepreneurial spirit of our forefathers echoes down to us through the beautifully brave words of their fateful declaration: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That was 1776. Founded in\u00a01920, we&#8217;ve been living the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepyroscope.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}