{"id":561,"date":"2007-11-16T22:24:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/11\/16\/hand-over-heart-its-the-law\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T22:24:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:24:04","slug":"hand-over-heart-its-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/11\/16\/hand-over-heart-its-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand Over Heart: It&#8217;s the Law!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2177887\/\">know this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/html\/uscode36\/usc_sec_36_00000301----000-.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. law<\/a>, a civilian like Obama is supposed to stand up when the anthem is played, take off his hat, face the flag, and put his right hand over his heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I did not know this.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d always assumed that the highest authority in the matter of what to do was social convention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know this? According to U.S. law, a civilian like Obama is supposed to stand up when the anthem is played, take off his hat, face the flag, and put his right hand over his heart. I did not know this.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d always assumed that the highest authority in the matter of what to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}