{"id":649,"date":"2013-04-08T17:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T22:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/?p=649"},"modified":"2013-12-27T12:04:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T17:04:53","slug":"pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/04\/08\/pledge-of-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/04\/American-flag.jpeg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-648\" title=\"American flag\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/files\/2013\/04\/American-flag.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while I deviate from hip hop here, and this is one of those moments. \u00a0Last week, I wrote <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/erik-nielson\/the-pledge-of-allegiance_b_2991729.html\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">this piece<\/span><\/a><\/span> for the\u00a0<em>Huffington Post<\/em> on the pledge of allegiance&#8211;a ritual that I really wish would go away. \u00a0I think if more people knew the history and motivations behind the pledge, they&#8217;d think twice about letting their kids recite it in school, so my goal here is to provide that history&#8211;and of course a little commentary along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The readers at Huff Post were largely supportive in their comments, but as I expected, I got some of the angry stuff too. \u00a0I also got a couple of <em>really<\/em> angry emails after I appeared on the Michael Medved show to discuss this issue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while I deviate from hip hop here, and this is one of those moments. \u00a0Last week, I wrote this piece for the\u00a0Huffington Post on the pledge of allegiance&#8211;a ritual that I really wish would go away. \u00a0I think if more people knew the history and motivations behind the pledge, they&#8217;d think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/2013\/04\/08\/pledge-of-allegiance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pledge of Allegiance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/enielson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}