{"id":259,"date":"2007-01-25T11:22:58","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/index.php\/2007\/01\/25\/get-it-on\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T22:28:14","slug":"get-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/01\/get-it-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Get It On …"},"content":{"rendered":"

All these flags being half-staff have been making me nervous. A little Internet work, and it turns out to be legit. Formal mourning for a president is 30 days. It’s in the U.S. Code<\/a>. The pertinent section is “m.”<\/p>\n

Poor President Ford. Now the real histories can start to be compiled. I bet scholars will find through his papers that he was surprisingly decisive and carefully deliberate, attributes that bring leaders criticism at the time, but look great in retrospect.<\/p>\n

So 30 days is from Dec. 26 to Jan. 25. Hoist ’em, I-540 car dealers. You and your giant flags. Is it love of country — or something that says, “Look at me. Come on over,” that no one can speak against. Clever.<\/p>\n

Yet, the Memphis paper says Mississippi and Arkansas may leave their flags in the gloomy dumps an extra day<\/a>, thanks to the order last month of then-Gov. Huckabee. The Commercial Appeal<\/em> goes on to note that flags are dropping increasingly for any local Joe Blow.<\/p>\n

It’s a trend<\/a> (this is me, not the CA<\/em>) for people who want to contribute something concrete for their country without contributing anything of any substance. Very safe, and no weekends. Symbols have no substance; that’s why they’re symbols.<\/p>\n

Cymbals are brass. Keep that in mind. “Bang a gong.” -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All these flags being half-staff have been making me nervous. A little Internet work, and it turns out to be legit. Formal mourning for a president is 30 days. It’s in the U.S. Code. The pertinent section is “m.” Poor President Ford. Now the real histories can start to be compiled. I bet scholars will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-home-street"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":253,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2006\/12\/half-staff-is-half-mast\/","url_meta":{"origin":259,"position":0},"title":"Half staff is half mast","author":"Ben S. 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