{"id":14627,"date":"2016-06-29T17:34:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14627"},"modified":"2016-06-29T17:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:34:42","slug":"equality-should-be-reflected-in-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/equality-should-be-reflected-in-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality should be reflected in anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Re: Reader has \u201canthem pride\u201d, June 16)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Your reader&#8217;s critique of the change to our national anthem warrants a rebuttal.<br \/>\nOur original anthem was gender neutral until 1913 when national patriotism reached fervour because of the impeding First World War conflict.<br \/>\nThus, it was amended to &#8220;our sons command.\u201d<br \/>\nThis was a time when women did not even have the right to vote and were considered as second citizens.<br \/>\nThey had no right to be soldiers.<br \/>\nThings have changed and gender equality is being reflected in our words, reflections and things for which we stand.<br \/>\nIt is 2016.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nGuy L. Poppe<br \/>\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Re: Reader has \u201canthem pride\u201d, June 16) Your reader&#8217;s critique of the change to our national anthem warrants a rebuttal. Our original anthem was gender neutral until 1913 when national patriotism reached fervour because of the impeding First World War conflict. Thus, it was amended to &#8220;our sons command.\u201d This was a time when women [&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-14627","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\/14627","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=14627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}