{"id":16412,"date":"2016-08-10T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16412"},"modified":"2016-08-10T19:33:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:33:55","slug":"no-apology-needed-gabby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16412","title":{"rendered":"No apology needed, Gabby"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gabby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16416\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gabby-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"gabby\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gabby-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gabby.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gabby Douglas, one of the U.S.&#8217;s five gold medal-winning Olympic gymnasts, has apologized for &#8220;offending&#8221; those who were critical of her because she didn&#8217;t place her hand over heart during the playing of the National Anthem.<\/p>\n<p>No apology is needed, young lady.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2016\/08\/10\/ease-up-america-gabby-douglas-wasnt-dissing-you-during-the-olympics-medal-ceremony\/?tid=sm_fb\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2016\/08\/10\/ease-up-america-gabby-douglas-wasnt-dissing-you-during-the-olympics-medal-ceremony\/?tid=sm_fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are now witnessing one of the aspects of social media that infuriates me. People get on Twitter and fire off half-baked critiques and insults.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Code of Conduct governing proper etiquette during the playing of the National Anthem added a provision in 2008 that suggests placing the hand over your heart. But the rule isn&#8217;t written into law, for crying out loud!<\/p>\n<p>Gabby didn&#8217;t do a single thing wrong by standing simply at attention while her teammates place their hands over their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I don&#8217;t place my hand over my heart, either, while the National Anthem is being played. Am I disrespecting the flag, my country, or am I showing that I am <em>less<\/em> of a patriot than those who do? Hardly.<\/p>\n<p>Neither is Gabby Douglas.<\/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>Gabby Douglas, one of the U.S.&#8217;s five gold medal-winning Olympic gymnasts, has apologized for &#8220;offending&#8221; those who were critical of her because she didn&#8217;t place her hand over heart during the playing of the National Anthem. No apology is needed, young lady. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2016\/08\/10\/ease-up-america-gabby-douglas-wasnt-dissing-you-during-the-olympics-medal-ceremony\/?tid=sm_fb We are now witnessing one of the aspects of social media that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16412\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No apology needed, Gabby<\/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":[13,17],"tags":[6474,3190,6284,6475,6476],"class_list":["post-16412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-sports-news","tag-gabby-douglas","tag-national-anthem","tag-olympics","tag-us-gymnastics-team","tag-us-olympic-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412","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=16412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16417,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16412\/revisions\/16417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}