{"id":3095,"date":"2011-06-20T11:09:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2011-06-20T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T11:09:56","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=3095","title":{"rendered":"Why ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am posting this story with more questions than answers.  The story itself is simple.  CNS News<\/a> is reporting that NBC has apologized for editing out “under God” and “indivisible” in its piece showing school children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.<\/p>\n

Announcer Dan Hicks told viewers, “We began our coverage of this final round just about three hours ago, and when we did it was our intent to begin the coverage of this U.S. Open championship with a feature that captured the patriotism of our national championship being held in our nation’s capital for the third time.  Regrettably, a portion of the Pledge of Allegiance that was in that feature was edited out. It was not done to upset anyone, and we’d like to apologize to those of you who were offended by it.”<\/p>\n

My questions are simple.  Why would anyone take the time to edit those words our of the Pledge?  Did NBC think that Americans wouldn’t notice?  Does this matter?  Is it a call to pay closer attention to anything we see on network television?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am posting this story with more questions than answers.  The story itself is simple.  CNS News is reporting that NBC has apologized for editing out “under God” and “indivisible” in its piece showing school children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}