{"id":1384,"date":"2009-01-24T13:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1384"},"modified":"2009-01-24T13:37:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:37:02","slug":"are-you-a-great-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/are-you-a-great-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you a &#8220;great American&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does a \u201cgreat American\u201d who disagrees with President Obama do?\u00a0 Pray for him.\u00a0 Peggy Noonan, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/19\/opinion\/19kristol.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion\">already informed <\/a>Obama about her own prayer-activities on his behalf, says that the Right to Life march prayed for the president during the inauguration&#8211;\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123265966528307529.html\">as great Americans, which is what they are, would.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Readers have criticized me for being too prickly about public announcements of prayer, so I will assume that Noonan merely means to say that &#8220;great Americans&#8221; wish their president well and that she is making no claims about the relationship between good citizenship and religiosity.<\/p>\n<p>Noonan warns Obama that \u201cradical movement on abortion\u201d would rouse the \u201csleeping giant\u00a0 that is American conservatism.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe so.\u00a0 But many conservatives are just as worried that a Democratic Congress is about to give government an all but permanent role in the economy, thus impairing the dynamism and entrepreneurship that is America&#8217;s greatest economic asset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a \u201cgreat American\u201d who disagrees with President Obama do?\u00a0 Pray for him.\u00a0 Peggy Noonan, who has already informed Obama about her own prayer-activities on his behalf, says that the Right to Life march prayed for the president during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/are-you-a-great-american\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,187,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}