{"id":736,"date":"2012-12-23T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/23\/love-it-or-secede-from-it"},"modified":"2012-12-23T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T23:12:00","slug":"love-it-or-secede-from-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Love it or \u2018secede\u2019 from it"},"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>I hate writing this grouchy blog on the eve of Christmas Eve, but something caught my eye the other day that I cannot let pass.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor of mine has a pickup truck with three interesting bumper stickers on its back end.<\/p>\n<p>One of them says \u201cServed Proudly\u201d and it has a U.S. Army unit insignia next to the phrase; another is of Old Glory, the Stars and Stripes, the national flag; a third sticker says, simply, \u201cSECEDE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>OK, so here\u2019s what confuses me.<\/p>\n<p>This individual was proud to serve his country, the United States of America. He is so proud, in fact, that he drives around in his truck with the national symbol on its tailgate. I\u2019m with him so far.<\/p>\n<p>Then that bumper sticker jumps out at me with the word \u201cSECEDE,\u201d which, by the way, is in all capital letters; I guess he <em>really<\/em> wants to pull out of the nation he served \u201cproudly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is it with these secessionists? Do they love the country or what? If they love the US of A, why do they now want to leave it, presumably, to form another country? <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m betting this person calls himself an American patriot. If so, then perhaps my neighbor needs to examine what the word \u201csecede\u201d means.<\/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>I hate writing this grouchy blog on the eve of Christmas Eve, but something caught my eye the other day that I cannot let pass. A neighbor of mine has a pickup truck with three interesting bumper stickers on its back end. One of them says \u201cServed Proudly\u201d and it has a U.S. Army unit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Love it or \u2018secede\u2019 from it<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}