{"id":2116,"date":"2002-06-26T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2002-06-26T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2002-06-26T10:31:41","modified_gmt":"2002-06-26T17:31:41","slug":"poor-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/06\/26\/poor-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor Taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a federal appeals court ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional &#8220;endorsement of religion&#8221;.  Conservative members of the House of Representatives, predictably, rushed outside, queued up in front of the tv cameras, and recited the pledge of allegiance.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like how, when confronted with a court ruling they disagree with, right-wing congressmen go on television and do the very thing that the courts just outlawed.  I thought this practice was in especially poor taste earlier this week when the Supreme Court prohibited the execution of the mentally retarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a federal appeals court ruled that the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional &#8220;endorsement of religion&#8221;. Conservative members of the House of Representatives, predictably, rushed outside, queued up in front of the tv cameras, and recited the pledge of allegiance. I don&#8217;t like how, when confronted with a court ruling they disagree with, right-wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}