{"id":9424,"date":"2017-01-20T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:33:32","slug":"oh-say-can-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/9424","title":{"rendered":"Oh Say, Can You See&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on Facebook who shared this said it felt like the funeral procession for our country. It&#8217;s the slower tempo they&#8217;re singing it at that gives it a more somber tone. But a more beautiful rendition of the national anthem I have never heard and I refuse to hear it as the closing number on the American experiment in democracy.<\/p>\n<p>No. I hear it in the way I used to listen to the old Baptist hymns in the pews when I was a kid. This is the national anthem as a spiritual, and the faithful are not beaten down or cowed by the ruthlessness of predators. The heart is stronger than the fist. America isn&#8217;t a place on a map, it&#8217;s a dream of liberty and justice for all, and we Americans are the people of the dream, wherever we happen to live.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eEbZnBy5T8s\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend on Facebook who shared this said it felt like the funeral procession for our country. It&#8217;s the slower tempo they&#8217;re singing it at that gives it a more somber tone. But a more beautiful rendition of the national anthem I have never heard and I refuse to hear it as the closing number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,7],"tags":[213,78],"class_list":["post-9424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gently-tapping-my-pulpit","category-life","tag-the-resistance","tag-the-struggle-for-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}