{"id":7486,"date":"2012-09-14T22:39:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2012-09-14T22:42:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T03:42:35","slug":"an-unexceptional-american-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=7486","title":{"rendered":"An unexceptional (American) song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was over singing to my Mother and the other sufferers of dementia this morning when I began warbling the disgusting second verse of this well known anthem&#8230;so well known that three or four of my audience members joined in. Like all good Republicans I was outraged&#8230;..outraged to realize it apologizes that America isn&#8217;t perfect. The composer must of been a commie or she must have been a student of Obama&#8217;s mentor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saul_Alinsky\">Saul Alinsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>O beautiful for pilgrim feet<br \/>\nWhose stern impassioned stress<br \/>\nA thoroughfare of freedom beat<br \/>\nAcross the wilderness!<br \/>\nAmerica! America!<br \/>\n<strong>God mend thine every flaw, <\/strong><br \/>\nConfirm thy soul in self-control,<br \/>\nThy liberty in law! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What&#8217;s worse I just found the lyrics on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoutsongs.com\/lyrics\/americathebeautiful.html\">website for Boy Scouts<\/a>. What is the world coming to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was over singing to my Mother and the other sufferers of dementia this morning when I began warbling the disgusting second verse of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486"}],"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=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}