\u2026or T-minus 18 and counting.<\/p>\n
Today I’m grateful for the freedoms we take for granted here in the U.S. of A. I’m free to spout whatever nonsense I please, including the harshest criticism of any elected officials, and to try and persuade everybody else to agree with me, as long as I don’t place anyone in danger by doing so. I can vote, I can walk about freely wherever I want (ditto about putting anyone in danger), I can count on law enforcement not being able to just bust in and haul me off (or plunder through all my belongings) without a good reason, one that they’ve gotten a judge to agree with. And if I am arrested, they can’t keep me confined just because they don’t like me (and I promise you, they wouldn’t). All those are very good things.*<\/p>\n
And, like everything else, they have a price.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow is Veterans Day. Buy a vet a cup of coffee, make a donation to the USO<\/a>, do something to let the people who have served know that we understand the cost, and realize that\u2014for most of us\u2014we’re not the ones who had to pay it.<\/p>\n If you are or were in the military, thank you for your service. Let us know if there’s anything we can do for you.<\/p>\n The rest of us\u2026just be\u00a0thankful<\/i>. I certainly am.<\/p>\n *Do you know what the Bill of Rights<\/a> says? It came up recently, and I was surprised to realize that I know a few of them (1st amendment, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th), but I was fairly clueless about the rest. Quick, name them<\/a>!<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2026or T-minus 18 and counting. Today I’m grateful for the freedoms we take for granted here in the U.S. of A. I’m free to spout whatever nonsense I please, including the harshest criticism of any elected officials, and to try and persuade everybody else to agree with me, as long as I don’t place anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}