{"id":4102,"date":"2012-11-06T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-06T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=4102"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:41","slug":"the-national-anthem-done-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/the-national-anthem-done-right\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Anthem Done Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me you get a little tired of pop stars mangling the National Anthem at events in order to &#8220;make it their own&#8221;.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a gem I came across that is wonderful.\u00a0 Three young siblings (Erika, Delaney, and Zachary) singing the anthem (as originally written), right in their own living room.\u00a0 It is less than 2 minutes long and well worth a few moments of your time.\u00a0 I especially like that they dedicate the song to the men and women serving in the armed forces.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" align=\"center\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QEGlsHS6tSQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QEGlsHS6tSQ?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" align=\"center\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&rsquo;re like me you get a little tired of pop stars mangling the National Anthem at events in order to &ldquo;make it their own&rdquo;.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s a gem I came across that is wonderful.&nbsp; Three young siblings (Erika, Delaney, and Zachary) singing the anthem (as originally written), right in their own living room.&nbsp; It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/the-national-anthem-done-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The National Anthem Done Right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-share-the-love","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21578,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions\/21578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}