{"id":14316,"date":"2016-05-25T17:07:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14316"},"modified":"2016-05-25T17:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:07:48","slug":"lets-look-at-the-whole-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/lets-look-at-the-whole-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s look at the whole anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Brock\u2019s Banter, May 12)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a 34 year resident of Newmarket but grew up in Toronto.<br \/>\nNow retired, I was in high school when the Flag Flap was in full swing.<br \/>\nI strongly supported the call for a new flag then and like the current flag, but I preferred the version with the blue side bars.<br \/>\nAs a country, we survived the change in flag and maybe now is the time to support a change in the national anthem.<br \/>\nThe Maple Leaf Forever is not only a much better piece of music, the title and recurring chorus words absolutely match our nation\u2019s Flag.<br \/>\nAnd\u2026while the words may need some work, the existing words definitely reflect our history and why should any Canadian be ashamed or slighted by our history?<br \/>\nLester Pearson had the guts and vision for a new flag, I wonder if our current PM would take on the Anthem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chuck Miller<br \/>\nNewmarket<br \/>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Brock\u2019s Banter, May 12) I\u2019m a 34 year resident of Newmarket but grew up in Toronto. Now retired, I was in high school when the Flag Flap was in full swing. I strongly supported the call for a new flag then and like the current flag, but I preferred the version with the blue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}