{"id":8354,"date":"2002-11-17T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2002-11-17T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/17\/stamp-out-piety-rescinded\/"},"modified":"2002-11-17T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2002-11-17T18:55:12","slug":"stamp-out-piety-rescinded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/stamp-out-piety-rescinded\/","title":{"rendered":"Stamp out piety, rescinded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FONT color=#3333ff>A retired<br \/>\nMontgomery County engineer may have started a national movement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Just recently, Frank Williamson was thwarted in his bid<br \/>\nto display posters depicting the national motto, &#8220;In God We Trust,&#8221; at<br \/>\nMontgomery County post offices. Now, not only will he see the phrase in his<br \/>\nlocal county; it will be placed in all 38,000 post offices across the country.<br \/>\n<br \/>While he initially paid $80 to buy a few posters for his local post offices,<br \/>\nthe self-supporting U.S. Postal Service will now foot the bill for the national<br \/>\neffort. <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;It just shows what one lone individual can do,&#8221; said<br \/>\nWilliamson, 74, of Montgomery. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;It&#8217;s about time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If you<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t trust in God, who do you trust?&#8221; <br \/>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/front\/1664534\" target=_blank>Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><font color=#000000>While I applaud the personal piety of<br \/>\nthis engineer I am not quite as thrilled with the government funded piety of<br \/>\nputting posters in every post office. Maybe I just hate to read in an article<br \/>\nanytime it say that some government agency is footing the bill, when that is in<br \/>\nactuality never the case.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FONT color=#3333ff>A retired Montgomery County engineer may have started a national movement. Just recently, Frank Williamson was thwarted in his bid to display posters depicting the national motto, &#8220;In God&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-8354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354","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=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}