{"id":177,"date":"2008-03-06T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T21:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blogx\/2008\/03\/06\/my-first-amendment-right-to-be-a-pet-owner\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T21:58:16","slug":"my-first-amendment-right-to-be-a-pet-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"My First Amendment Right to be a Pet Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>First Amendment &ndash;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>This is the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>It guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition for redress of grievances.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Got that?<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Well, a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2006\/03\/01\/politics\/main1356854.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> article discusses a study done by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedommuseum.us\/html\/\" target=\"_blank\">McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum<\/a> that shows only one in four Americans can name more than one of the five guaranteed freedoms of the First Amendment.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>More than half the people surveyed could name at least two members of The Simpsons.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>More people could name the three American Idol judges than could name three First Amendment rights.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>One in five people surveyed thought the First Amendment guaranteed the right to own a pet!<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>This telephone survey was of 1000 random adults.<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>No wonder so many people don&rsquo;t realize how many of our fundamental rights we&rsquo;re losing in America.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>For crying out loud, they think the First Amendment guarantees them the right to own a pet!<span>&nbsp; <\/span>You&rsquo;re right, our founding fathers were concerned with freedom speech, the right to bear arms, and the promise that every American has a cute little purse dog for a pet!<br \/><\/span><span>&nbsp;<br \/><\/span><span>Go back to the top of this blog.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Read it, learn it, and force our lawmakers to respect it!<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Amendment &ndash;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.&nbsp;This is the First Amendment of the Bill of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=177\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My First Amendment Right to be a Pet Owner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}