{"id":81,"date":"2001-09-26T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2001-09-26T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=81"},"modified":"2001-09-26T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2001-09-26T18:26:00","slug":"so-shoot-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2001\/09\/26\/14\/26\/so-shoot-me\/","title":{"rendered":"So Shoot Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was thinking of becoming a citizen (mainly so the Bush Gang would find it more difficult to have me shot) but one sticking point is this damn Pledge of Allegiance<\/a> thingy. It has this whole God thing in it. I read, though, that this “concerned parent” is suing<\/a> to have the late UNDER GOD amendment to the basic pledge repealed<\/a>. It was pasted in at the height of Cold War paranoia. Long overdue<\/a>, I’d say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was thinking of becoming a citizen (mainly so the Bush Gang would find it more difficult to have me shot) but one sticking point is this damn Pledge of Allegiance thingy. It...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t