{"id":10244,"date":"2015-07-20T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2015-07-20T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T20:36:46","slug":"lower-the-flag-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10244","title":{"rendered":"Lower the flag, Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Readers of this blog know that I tilt left, and that I generally support the policies put forth by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>However, the president has\u00a0made a mistake\u00a0&#8212; so far, at least &#8212; by not ordering a simple act of tribute to five brave men.<\/p>\n<p>These are the individuals who were killed in the massacre in Chattanooga, Tenn. Four of them were Marines, one was a sailor.<\/p>\n<p>A gunman shot them to death. All five were on active duty. All of them essentially died in service to their country.<\/p>\n<p>The White House flag should be lowered to half-staff to honor their memory. And unlike the situation in South Carolina, where that state&#8217;s legislature had to approve a bill to remove the rebel flag from the statehouse grounds, the president of the United States &#8212; the commander in chief &#8212; sole authority to act.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama has erred by not ordering the White House flag to fly at half-staff.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/m.snopes.com\/2015\/07\/19\/chattanooga-flags-half-staff\/<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of this blog know that I tilt left, and that I generally support the policies put forth by the Obama administration. However, the president has\u00a0made a mistake\u00a0&#8212; so far, at least &#8212; by not ordering a simple act of tribute to five brave men. These are the individuals who were killed in the massacre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lower the flag, Mr. President<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,935,2903,5246],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-chattanooga-shooting","tag-marines","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}