{"id":768,"date":"2004-10-16T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T19:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=768"},"modified":"2004-10-16T15:22:44","modified_gmt":"2004-10-16T19:22:44","slug":"ironic-outrageous-or-just-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Ironic? Outrageous? Or Just Sad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BushRally.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Once again, the Bush\/Cheney Campaign demonstrated at a Rally in Oregon on Thursday their respect for their beloved U.S. Constition:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and escorted from the event after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan &#8220;Protect our civil liberties.&#8221; All three said they applied for and received valid tickets from Republican headquarters in Medford.<\/p>\n<p>The women said they did not intend to protest. &#8220;I wanted to see if I would be able to make a statement that I feel is important, but not offensive, in a rally for my president,&#8221; said Janet Voorhies, 48, a teacher in training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe chose this phrase specifically because we didn&#8217;t think it would be offensive or degrading or obscene,&#8221; said Tania Tong, 34, a special education teacher.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Apparently &#8220;obscenity&#8221; is subjective, Ms. Tong.<\/p>\n<p>A response from a Democrat News Release on the matter:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The U.S. Constitution was not available on site for comment, but expressed in a written statement support for \u201cthe freedom of speech\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Bush\/Cheney Campaign demonstrated at a Rally in Oregon on Thursday their respect for their beloved U.S. Constition: Three Medford school teachers were threatened with arrest and escorted from the event after they showed up wearing T-shirts with the slogan &#8220;Protect our civil liberties.&#8221; All three said they applied for and received valid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}