{"id":13039,"date":"2009-11-17T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13039"},"modified":"2009-11-17T14:27:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T22:27:36","slug":"not-standing-for-the-pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13039","title":{"rendered":"Not Standing For The Pledge Of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I came to America in 1977 and entered sixth grade, I tried to get away with not standing for the pledge of allegiance. I said that I was an Australian, not an American, and I should not have to stand.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher insisted that I stand but said I did not have to say the pledge.<\/p>\n<p>(I became an American citizen in 1991.)<\/p>\n<p>If I were covering a president of the United States or anyone in the world, I would not stand. To stand up when someone comes into a room puts you in a sort of obeisance to that person and as a reporter, I would not want to do that. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d bow to the emperor of Japan either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I came to America in 1977 and entered sixth grade, I tried to get away with not standing for the pledge of allegiance. I said that I was an Australian, not an American, and I should not have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[5505,19952,17579,19951,19953],"class_list":["post-13039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-american-citizen","tag-emperor-of-japan","tag-obeisance","tag-pledge-of-allegiance","tag-sixth-grade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}