{"id":388,"date":"2002-03-07T13:54:21","date_gmt":"2002-03-07T21:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/07\/under-god\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:01:18","slug":"under-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/07\/under-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Under God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16484,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.guardian.co.uk\\\/elsewhere\\\/journalist\\\/story\\\/0,7792,662154,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.theguardian.com\\\/elsewhere\\\/journalist\\\/story\\\/0,7792,662154,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Certainly, faith in God has often been linked to patriotism in the US through the pledge of allegiance, which contains the words &#8220;I pledge allegiance to the flag&#8230;one nation under God.&#8221; But God is, in fact, a relative newcomer to the pledge and was only included in it because of a right-wing religious lobby&#8217;s efforts during the McCarthyite era.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/elsewhere\/journalist\/story\/0,7792,662154,00.html\" title=\"Guardian Unlimited: With God on their side\">Read the rest of the article here&#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly, faith in God has often been linked to patriotism in the US through the pledge of allegiance. But God is, in fact, a relative newcomer to the pledge and was only included in it because of a right-wing religious lobby&#8217;s efforts during the McCarthyite era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}