{"id":2384,"date":"2009-10-29T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2009\/10\/29\/when-part-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-is-an-unallowed-expresssion\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T21:54:44","slug":"when-part-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-is-an-unallowed-expresssion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2009\/10\/when-part-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance-is-an-unallowed-expresssion\/","title":{"rendered":"When part of the Pledge of Allegiance is an unallowed expresssion"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a &#8220;One nation under God&#8221; button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he says because of the religious reference. The company claims that expressing such personal beliefs is simply not allowed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve worn it for well over a year and I support my country and God,&#8221; Trevor Keezor said Tuesday. &#8220;I was just doing what I think every American should do, just love my country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The American flag button Keezer wore in the Florida store since March 2008 says &#8220;One nation under God, indivisible.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/insightscoop.typepad.com\/2004\/2009\/10\/separation-of-church-and-home-depot.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Via Insight Scoop]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"blog\">This is why I only go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/romedepot.htm\" target=\"_blank\" >Rome Depot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former cashier for The Home Depot who has been wearing a &#8220;One nation under God&#8221; button on his work apron for more than a year has been fired, he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}