{"id":516,"date":"2013-10-04T02:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T02:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/?p=516"},"modified":"2013-10-04T02:22:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T02:22:54","slug":"first-amendment-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/first-amendment-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"First Amendment Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change of pace from the usual astronomy stuff. I saw the following sign while walking around DC. This is from the Oval park where the National Christmas Tree is usually set up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-511\" alt=\"Sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711_2.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711_2.jpg 1064w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711_2-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711_2-1024x660.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I decided to take advantage of all five of the basic freedoms found therein. First, freedom of religion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6714.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-514\" alt=\"IMG_6714\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6714.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6714.jpg 1274w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6714-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6714-1024x778.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second, freedom of speech:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6713.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" alt=\"IMG_6713\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6713.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6713.jpg 996w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6713-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Third, freedom of the press. (I didn&#8217;t have a good marker, but I did employ some Photoshoppery. It says: Furlough Times, Breaking News, Congress Sucks):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-512\" alt=\"IMG_6712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6712.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"875\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6712.jpg 1041w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6712-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6712-935x1024.jpg 935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fourth, freedom of assembly. This is the one that really gets me. If we&#8217;re allowed to participate in first amendment activities, why in the name of all that&#8217;s holy, is this closed?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6715.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-515\" alt=\"IMG_6715\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6715.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6715.jpg 1806w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6715-300x185.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6715-1024x632.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifth, freedom of petition. (It says &#8220;I Am Holding a Sign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-510\" alt=\"IMG_6711\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711.jpg 1489w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_6711-1024x698.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw no signs saying we were allowed to participate in activities related to any other amendment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change of pace from the usual astronomy stuff. I saw the following sign while walking around DC. This is from the Oval park where the National Christmas Tree is usually set up. So I decided to take advantage of all five of the basic freedoms found therein. First, freedom of religion: Second, freedom of speech: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qGdg-8k","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joebohanon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}