{"id":190504,"date":"2009-11-19T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T03:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/god-bless-the-onion-18\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T03:03:00","slug":"god-bless-the-onion-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/19\/god-bless-the-onion-18\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/area_man_passionate_defender_of\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/area_man_passionate_defender_of\">Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: &#8216;one nation under God,'&#8221; said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. &#8220;Well, there&#8217;s a reason they put that right at the top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Men like Madison and Jefferson were moved by the ideals of Christianity, and wanted the United States to reflect those values as a Christian nation,&#8221; continued Mortensen, referring to the &#8220;Father of the Constitution,&#8221; James Madison, considered by many historians to be an atheist, and Thomas Jefferson, an Enlightenment-era thinker who rejected the divinity of Christ and was in France at the time the document was written. &#8220;The words on the page speak for themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be: &#8230;.. &#8220;Right there in the preamble, the authors make their priorities clear: &#8216;one nation under God,&#8217;&#8221; said Mortensen, attributing to the Constitution a line from the Pledge of Allegiance, which itself did not include any reference to a deity until 1954. &#8220;Well, there&#8217;s a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1002,978,1050],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-good-writing","category-politics","category-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190504"}],"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=190504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}