{"id":2278,"date":"2015-06-21T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2021-01-03T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T18:00:26","slug":"a-message-from-my-father-about-the-flag-of-the-united-states-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"A Message from my Father about the Flag of the United States of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Fathers Day and mine recently created something pretty darn poignant regarding the treatment of the U.S.\u00a0Flag. You should watch it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OLD GLORY   Insulted by Indifference\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fRXKhaqhuDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of lip service about patriotism these days, and very little genuine understanding about America as a people, a nation, a government, or even just a freaking geographic area for that matter. Fortunately we still have a solid foundation that we <em>could <\/em>pick ourselves back up from and maybe one day- learn to stand tall and be proud of ourselves as Americans for the right reasons. I know we still have a chance because I can still love and publicly criticize America right here within it.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got a lot of work to do to make this place anything near worthy of how well we market it\u00a0to ourselves, but in the meantime, we can at least show respect to those who helped build America&#8217;s legitimate foundation by doing what my father suggests in this video, just doing the darn housekeeping for crying out loud.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Fathers Day Dad, and Pop and DeeDee, I know they appreciate this video a lot. I think this video is kind of a fitting fathers day gift for them too.\u00a0I know this little diatribe doesn&#8217;t quite fit with the simple purity of your message in the video, but I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll mind me stepping up on my soap box for a minute, you did kind of help teach me about the whole free speech thing and using my brain and whatnot, can&#8217;t unring that bell- lol.<\/p>\n<p>God Bless America, and also teach us to share ALL of our blessings with the whole world, like our fathers shared their blessings with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Fathers Day and mine recently created something pretty darn poignant regarding the treatment of the U.S.\u00a0Flag. You should watch it. There is a lot of lip service about patriotism these days, and very little genuine understanding about America as a people, a nation, a government, or even just a freaking geographic area for that <a href='http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/?p=2278' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/funkboxing.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}