{"id":71,"date":"2006-06-22T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T03:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2006-06-22T22:53:09","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T03:53:09","slug":"the-ufp-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/22\/the-ufp-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"The UFP Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.salon.com\/0003522\/stories\/2005\/08\/04\/birdiesStarTrekStories.html\">Beauty Dish: True Underground Adventures of an Avon Lady<\/a> &#8212; not, one might think, the sort of blog I would be likely to recommend. Yet this page of her blog contains several heartwarming stories of how Star Trek infiltrated, then illuminated her life and the lives of her two young sons. I challenge most of you to read all of them without tearing up or at least going &#8220;Awwwww.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My favorite involves the words her eight-year-old was suspended for saying in school instead of the patriotically correct ones:<\/p>\n<p><i>I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Federation of Planets, and to the galaxy for which it stands, one universe, under everybody, with liberty and justice for all species.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we lived in a world where that was what kids pledged themselves to, instead of to a corporate-theocratic empire determined to conquer the planet while pretending to be a democratic republic?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This page of her blog contains several heartwarming stories of how Star Trek infiltrated, then illuminated her life and the lives of her two young sons. <a href=\"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/22\/the-ufp-pledge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neopagan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}