{"id":179561,"date":"2018-01-01T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/01\/better-judgement-or-cowardice\/"},"modified":"2018-01-01T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T02:58:00","slug":"better-judgement-or-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/01\/better-judgement-or-cowardice\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Judgement or Cowardice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XZR4dyn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/XZR4dyn.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>A couple of weeks back, I went to lunch with my colleagues at work.<\/p>\n<p>We went to <a href=\"https:\/\/mission-bbq.com\/\">Mission BBQ<\/a> with colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Mission Barbecue includes a heavy branding on the whole, &#8220;Support the Troops,&#8221; thing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things that I discovered, when we arrived at noon, was that they play the Star Spangled Banner at noon, as we walked in the door.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was standing, looking at the flag with their hands on their hearts.<\/p>\n<p>I just stood there, no hand on my heart, but then I thought, &#8220;Maybe I should go down on one knee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I just stood there.<\/p>\n<p>Should I have kneeled, or perhaps (as a friend suggested) lift my arm in a Black Power Salute, or would that just make me an asshole?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still conflicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks back, I went to lunch with my colleagues at work. We went to Mission BBQ with colleagues. Mission Barbecue includes a heavy branding on the whole, &#8220;Support the Troops,&#8221; thing. One of the things that I discovered, when we arrived at noon, was that they play the Star Spangled Banner at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[450,716,504,374],"class_list":["post-179561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-employment","tag-patriotism","tag-philosophy","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}