Background:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n| With the release of the O Beautiful Forever stamps, the U.S. Postal Service\u00a0commemorates the beauty and majesty of the United States through 20 images that correspond with the lyrics of one of the nation\u2019s most beloved songs, \u201cAmerica the Beautiful.\u201d Each of the stamps features a photograph that helps illustrate one of five phrases from the song\u2019s first verse:\u00a0\u201cSpacious Skies\u201d (top row), \u201cWaves of Grain\u201d (second row), \u201cMountain Majesties\u201d (third row), \u201cThe Fruited Plain\u201d (fourth row), and \u201cSea to Shining Sea\u201d (bottom row).\u00a0Details of the locations \u2014 ranging from Maine to Hawaii \u2014 will be announced later.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What: First-day-of-issue stamp dedication ceremony for the O Beautiful Forever stamps. The event is free and open to the public. News about these stamps is being shared with the hashtag\u00a0#OBeautifulStamps. When: Wednesday, July 4, at 7:30 p.m. MDT Where: Colorado Springs Philharmonic\u2019s July 4th Event \u2014 Summer Symphony Memorial Park 1605 Pikes Peak Avenue Colorado […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23469,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23468\/revisions\/23469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | ![\"O](\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2018\/images\/pr18_ma039.png\")
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