{"id":906,"date":"2003-11-19T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2003-11-19T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/flag-wrapped-vs-draped\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2003-11-19T19:46:09","slug":"flag-wrapped-vs-draped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/flag-wrapped-vs-draped\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag wrapped vs draped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mourning in America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/11\/19\/opinion\/19ROBE.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">Mourning in America<\/a> By JOHN B. ROBERTS II, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>As a fellow Republican, I would also offer Karl Rove some friendly political advice. &#8230; With an election approaching, presenting the picture of a president who has time for fundraisers but not for military funerals would be an egregious mistake.<\/p>\n<p>[T]here is an asymmetry to the administration&#8217;s use of the military in presidential events. <b>It is wrong to bask publicly in glory on the deck of an aircraft carrier<\/b> unless you are also willing to grieve openly for fallen soldiers. <b>You can&#8217;t <i>wrap yourself in the flag<\/i> while avoiding flag-draped coffins.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Update 4-23-04<\/b><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mjh's Dump Bush weBlog: Flag-draped Coffins, I\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/000606.htm\">mjh&#8217;s Dump Bush weBlog: Flag-draped Coffins, I<\/a> (Russ Kick)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mjh's Dump Bush weBlog: Flag-draped Coffins, II\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/000605.htm\">mjh&#8217;s Dump Bush weBlog: Flag-draped Coffins, II<\/a> (Tami Silicio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mourning in America By JOHN B. ROBERTS II, NYTimes As a fellow Republican, I would also offer Karl Rove some friendly political advice. &#8230; With an election approaching, presenting the picture of a president who has time for fundraisers but not for military funerals would be an egregious mistake. [T]here is an asymmetry to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/flag-wrapped-vs-draped\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flag wrapped vs draped<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&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":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}