{"id":484,"date":"2006-05-02T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T10:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=484"},"modified":"2006-05-02T10:47:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T10:47:56","slug":"5206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=484","title":{"rendered":"5\/2\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was <strong>National Loyalty Day<\/strong>.  I didn&#8217;t know there was one either, until I was contacted by national columnist Dru Sefton last month.  (It&#8217;s actually been celebrated &#8212; a small town in New York even has an annual parade and voting for &#8220;Ms. Loyalty&#8221; &#8212; since the 1950s.) Ms. Sefton was writing a column about National Loyalty Day and asked for 100 word essays from a diverse group of citizens nationwide on what loyalty to the country means to them.  I started by saying that loyalty to America should be loyalty to <em>Americans<\/em> &#8212; for the common good.  And then as one example, I wrote:  &#8220;&#8230;Seneca Kansas farmers stop putting toxic chemicals on their &#8216;amber waves of grain,&#8217; so people eating bread in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, don&#8217;t get cancer.&#8221;  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhouse.com\/archive\/sefton042506.html\">Link for the full essay, and column<\/a>&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was National Loyalty Day. I didn&#8217;t know there was one either, until I was contacted by national columnist Dru Sefton last month. (It&#8217;s actually been celebrated &#8212; a small town in New York even has an annual parade and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=484\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}