{"id":3389,"date":"2005-06-21T16:34:33","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T23:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/06\/21\/pledge-of-allegiance\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T16:05:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T00:05:08","slug":"pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/06\/21\/pledge-of-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8047,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blogs.salon.com\\\/0003522\\\/2005\\\/06\\\/06.html#a576&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081101214009\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blogs.salon.com:80\\\/0003522\\\/2005\\\/06\\\/06.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 03:57:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 17:18:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 05:39:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 18:02:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:44:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 12:30:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 12:30:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8048,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net\\\/2005\\\/06\\\/21\\\/star_trek_pledge_of_.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100514025643\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.boingboing.net:80\\\/2005\\\/06\\\/21\\\/star_trek_pledge_of_.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 17:19:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 05:39:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 18:02:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 12:30:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 12:30:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>A young kid was suspended from school for one day when, while everyone else in the classroom was reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0003522\/2005\/06\/06.html#a576\" title=\"Beauty Dish: Hey, Klingons have feelings, too!\">he recited his own pledge of allegiance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Federation of Planets, and to the galaxy for which it stands, one universe, under everybody, with liberty and justice for all species.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for him, I say &#8212; and good for his mom for laughing in the principal&#8217;s face when she was told what her boy had done.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/06\/21\/star_trek_pledge_of_.html\" title=\"Boing Boing: Star Trek pledge of allegiance gets kid suspended\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Federation of Planets, and to the galaxy for which it stands, one universe, under everybody, with liberty and justice for all species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2047],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-3389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=3389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}