{"id":431,"date":"2003-01-29T04:02:50","date_gmt":"2003-01-28T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/431"},"modified":"2003-01-29T04:02:50","modified_gmt":"2003-01-28T23:02:50","slug":"clarification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/431","title":{"rendered":"Clarification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing against protests.  If you need to burn a flag, go ahead. I may not think it&#8217;s the coolest thing ever, but it&#8217;s your right (although burning the symbol of your right to burn the symbol of your right is a bit like the snake that eats itself, but I digress).<\/p>\n<p>No, my problem is that people are co-opting a legitimate distress signal into a protest symbol.  Now if there&#8217;s a ship at sea that&#8217;s taking on water and lost its radio and its only option for a distress signal is an upside down flag, is it going to get ignored?<\/p>\n<p>How often do you pay attention to car alarms anymore?  How abouy the winshield cardboard that says &#8220;Need help, call police&#8221;? To me flying the flag upside down to protest a war is akin to calling 911 and saying, &#8220;Help! Help! The president&#8217;s talking about war!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing against protests. If you need to burn a flag, go ahead. I may not think it&#8217;s the coolest thing ever, but it&#8217;s your right (although burning the symbol of your right to burn the symbol of your right is a bit like the snake that eats itself, but I digress). No, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}