{"id":34338,"date":"2023-10-13T01:35:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T06:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34338"},"modified":"2023-10-13T01:36:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T06:36:26","slug":"remembrance-and-taxation-without-representation-my-latest-in-the-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=34338","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance and Taxation without representation &#8211; my latest in the Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance and taxation without representation<br \/>\n2nd of a series on a Trip to Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/uploads\/image\/article\/126\/257\/126257\/header_1080x\/23334_53137450883_6541b29fd5_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<p>One of my grandsons practiced taking night photos at the National Mall\u2019s Second World War Memorial. Composed of 56 plinths representing the states and territories whose veterans fought in the war the memorial\u2019s brightly lit marble is more magical at night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonor flights\u201d are working hard to fly the \u201cgreatest generations\u201d veterans to see the memorial that marks their service before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p>My father, once a young sailor, died 17 years before its 2004 dedication.   When I was a child there was no rush to remember a war that still seemed like yesterday. I  watched it fought on television&#8217;s Combat and Rat Patrol and watched historical footage of it on CBS\u2019s The Twentieth Century with my Dad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2023\/10\/12\/126257-remembrance-and-taxation-without-representation\">Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remembrance and taxation without representation 2nd of a series on a Trip to Washington DC. It begins: One of my grandsons practiced taking night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,148],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34340,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34338\/revisions\/34340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}