{"id":8430,"date":"2025-08-31T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/?p=8430"},"modified":"2025-08-31T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T12:06:39","slug":"the-beverly-school-board-decided-that-each-school-must-fly-the-israeli-flag-or-face-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/2025\/08\/31\/the-beverly-school-board-decided-that-each-school-must-fly-the-israeli-flag-or-face-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beverly school board decided that each school must fly the Israeli flag or face closure."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Years ago, the Jewish mayor of Beverly Hills, who shared my background and progressive views, improved his community.<br><br>The Beverly school board decided that each school must fly the Israeli flag or face closure.<br><br>As a leftist, progressive, and Marxist-Leninist, I do not respect socialist flags and believe that flag burning or disposal is a valid form of free speech, which reflects my belief in personal freedom over symbolic displays.<br><br>The only flag I truly value is the American flag on July 4th, because it represents the victory of Americans over British rule and their pursuit of independence and freedom.<br><br>To be proud of being American, one should support Native Americans and the working class, contribute to building schools and digital libraries, and seek independence by self-education through reading.<br><br>A truly educated and independent American contributes more to society than symbols like flags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" src=\"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00-512x341.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00-512x341.webp 512w, http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00-255x170.webp 255w, http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00-768x512.webp 768w, http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/00.webp 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, the Jewish mayor of Beverly Hills, who shared my background and progressive views, improved his community. The Beverly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8430\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/76.212.95.197\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}