{"id":1637,"date":"2003-08-20T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T06:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/texas-pledge\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:29:12","slug":"texas-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/20\/texas-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  &#8220;Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s the brand-spankin&#8217; new Pledge of Allegiance to Texas, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksat.com\/education\/2405650\/detail.html\" title=\"New Texas Pledge Law To Cost School Districts\">required to be said<\/a> just after the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States. Classrooms are required to display the flag, which for one school district, becomes a \\$50,000 expenditure.<\/p>\n<p>\\$50,000 for flags, for an entirely spurious pledge. It&#8217;s a good thing we&#8217;ve got such ridiculously overpaid teachers and overfunded schools, so that this school district and all the others wouldn&#8217;t have any better ways to spend that money.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2003_08_17_atrios_archive.html#106139849081096345\" title=\"I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas\">Atrios<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.blogspot.com\/2003_08_01_tbogg_archive.html#106139463815786415\" title=\"Do we say 'yee-haw' before 'Don't mess with Texas', or after?\">Tom<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honor the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one and indivisible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}