{"id":66,"date":"2005-10-13T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T13:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:02:03","slug":"the-pledge-of-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"The Pledge of Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn my classes this week we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about nationalism and how national identities are constructed and perpetuated via the education system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs an example, I mentioned to them how surprised and disconcerted I was this past weekend when my five-year old proudly Canadian daughter suddenly began reciting perfectly the American Pledge of Allegiance. As soon as I heard that, I promptly began teaching her the words to O Canada. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps, though, I should really be teaching her this version of the Pledge, courtesy of Matt Groening&#8217;s comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0679727590\/102-2846273-5718558?v=glance&amp;n=283155&amp;v=glance\">Life in Hell<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;text-indent:40pt;\">\n<span style=\"color:#004080;\"><br \/>\n<br \/>I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow. And to the Republicans, for which they scam, one nacho, underpants, with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my classes this week we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about nationalism and how national identities are constructed and perpetuated via the education system. As an example, I mentioned to them how surprised and disconcerted I was this past weekend when my five-year old proudly Canadian daughter suddenly began reciting perfectly the American Pledge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-of-eh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}