{"id":907,"date":"2014-10-31T07:50:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=907"},"modified":"2014-10-31T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T11:50:48","slug":"i-pledge-allegiance-liberty-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=907","title":{"rendered":"I Pledge Allegiance\u2026 | Liberty Blitzkrieg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2014\/10\/29\/the-dissident-dad-i-pledge-allegiance\/\">I Pledge Allegiance\u2026 | Liberty Blitzkrieg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">Remember those weird kids who didn\u2019t say the Pledge of Allegiance in school? They either sat down or just stood up silently. I sure do. Most likely for religious reasons, but I remember thinking to myself as a kid that it was wrong not to say the pledge aloud with the rest of us. As I got older in my teenage years, I even felt that those kids were not being respectful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">Some adults may even give them the old, \u201cwell, if you don\u2019t like it then you can leave\u201d routine that is mentioned every time a minority opts out of the majority\u2019s way of doing things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">Homeschooling my children will really make this a non-issue; however, my nieces were reciting the American Pledge of Allegiance the other day while playing with my children. In fact, here in Texas the kids recite both the American and Texas Pledge of Allegiance before class.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">After hearing them recite it, and of course remembering the 2,500 or so times I said it in my lifetime, I started to think about the purpose and real meaning of this pledge that millions of school-aged children recite every morning Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; font-size: 0.9rem; line-height: 1.4rem; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Pledge Allegiance\u2026 | Liberty Blitzkrieg. Remember those weird kids who didn\u2019t say the Pledge of Allegiance in school? They either sat down or just stood up silently. I sure do. Most likely for religious reasons, but I remember thinking to myself as a kid that it was wrong not to say the pledge aloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[338,483,631],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-freedom","tag-liberty-2","tag-pledge-of-allegiance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}