{"id":797459,"date":"2019-07-09T11:18:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368571"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T17:18:51","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-frisco-should-be-ashamed-of-confederate-flag-parade-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-frisco-should-be-ashamed-of-confederate-flag-parade-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Frisco should be ashamed of Confederate flag parade car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing to express my shock at seeing a parade car participant displaying two Confederate flags in a self-claimed family parade.<\/p>\n<p>This is beyond disgusting and absolutely reprehensible. Although I am not a Trump supporter, I do fully support that there is a float supporting him with a banner bearing his name. That is a candidate-driven float, and that\u2019s the American way \u2014 one\u2019s ability to display your political leanings.<\/p>\n<p>A Confederate flag is not this. It is a well-known symbol of hate. So much so that it has been removed from government offices and basically banned throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>This was about 60% through the parade route when it passed by the area we were standing. I am assuming that means it went the entire route without reprimand.<\/p>\n<p>With parade volunteers every few hundred feet, this should have been noticed immediately and ejected just as fast.<\/p>\n<p>That this display took place in a parade bearing the name of Frisco certainly reflects negatively on the community.<\/p>\n<p>It cast a dark cloud on an otherwise gorgeous day. Frisco should be ashamed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-frisco-should-be-ashamed-of-confederate-flag-parade-car\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am writing to express my shock at seeing a parade car participant displaying two Confederate flags in a self-claimed family parade. This is beyond disgusting and absolutely reprehensible. Although I am not a Trump supporter, I do fully support that there is a float supporting him with a banner bearing his name. That is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 17:06:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}