{"id":17,"date":"2003-04-12T00:28:15","date_gmt":"2003-04-12T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/04\/in_god_we_trust_on_flag\/"},"modified":"2003-04-12T00:28:15","modified_gmt":"2003-04-12T00:28:15","slug":"in_god_we_trust_on_flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/04\/in_god_we_trust_on_flag\/","title":{"rendered":"In God We Trust on Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GAFLAG4-2003.jpg\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/archives\/GAFLAG4-2003.jpg\" width=\"370\" height=\"278\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Seeing the new flag, I decided to write this to the govenor:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sonny,<\/p>\n<p>The #1 thing I like about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2003\/04\/04\/politics\/main547779.shtml\">proposed flag <\/a>is adding &#8220;In God We Trust.&#8221;  99.99% of Georgians should be unified under that phrase&#8211; white, black, christian, muslim, male, or female. We have freedom *OF* religion in America (and yes freedom from religion.)<\/p>\n<p>As for the 1956 flag, I was born in 1961 and grew up thinking our flag looked better than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netstate.com\/state_flags.htm\">most state flags<\/a>, sharing the red, white, and blue and stars and bars of the American flag.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8217;56 flag is a good looking flag, but I am not proud of the circumstances under which it was installed. Those who want to honor the Confederacy are free to fly the Confederate Flag, for example in Confederate cemetaries.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for keeping your campaign promise to let the people decide. I did not like the way Barnes forced a decision without the input of all Georgians.<\/p>\n<p>IN GOD WE TRUST!<\/p>\n<p>Jeb Cashel<\/p>\n<p>Snellville, GA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing the new flag, I decided to write this to the govenor: Sonny, The #1 thing I like about the proposed flag is adding &#8220;In God We Trust.&#8221; 99.99% of Georgians should be unified under that phrase&#8211; white, black, christian, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2003\/04\/in_god_we_trust_on_flag\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}