{"id":501,"date":"2002-06-28T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2002-06-28T16:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/06\/28\/501.html"},"modified":"2002-06-28T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2002-06-28T16:25:09","slug":"defending-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/06\/28\/defending-our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending our children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good old Ashcroft: \"The Justice Department will defend the ability of our nation's children to pledge allegiance to the American flag.\"<\/p>\n<p>Because any sentence containing the word \"defend\" and \"children\" is automatically true, right?<\/p>\n<p>Information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/usatonline\/20020627\/4228712s.htm\">origins of the Pledge<\/a> may prove enlightening.<\/p>\n<p>No time to go into detail on this, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=2&u=\/ap\/20020628\/ap_on_re_us\/pledge_of_allegiance_31\">Yahoo news article<\/a> summarizes the intellectual depth of the arguments in favor of keeping the \"under God\" clause:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush found the ruling \"ridiculous,\" and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., branded it \"just nuts.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mighty compelling arguments, I must say.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good old Ashcroft: &#8220;The Justice Department will defend the ability of our nation&#8217;s children to pledge allegiance to the American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}