{"id":159,"date":"2004-03-30T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-30T16:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=159"},"modified":"2011-08-17T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:06:12","slug":"clinton-saves-the-pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/clinton-saves-the-pledge-of-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Saves the Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that the phrase &#8220;under God&#8221; was added to the pledge in 1954 to show those &#8220;godless commies&#8221; who WE had on our side, the controversy still continues.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose if it was always in there, I can understand why people are upset, but it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem is, removing it makes some kind of a bump and throws the rhythm off. Rather than remove it, we need to put something in its place&#8230; something that says: &#8220;Hey this is America!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/images\/posts\/2004_pledge-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"George Clinton and kids practice the new pledge of allegiance.\" width=\"400\" height=\"316\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>Thanks Dr. Funkenstein!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with removing &quot;under God&quot; is that is causes a bump and the rhythm is off&#8230; P-Funk Mastermind George Clinton steps in and saves the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-cannon-fodder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clinton Saves the Pledge of Allegiance - SoApBoX<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/clinton-saves-the-pledge-of-allegiance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Clinton Saves the Pledge of Allegiance - SoApBoX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The problem with removing &quot;under God&quot; is that is causes a bump and the rhythm is off... 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