{"id":3212,"date":"2012-06-14T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/06\/14\/riled-up-with-national-pride\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:47","slug":"riled-up-with-national-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3212","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Riled Up With National Pride&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15626,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Flag_Day_%28United_States%29#1908.2C_Theodore_Roosevelt&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Flag_Day_(United_States)&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15627,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.juliegolob.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260321202348\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.juliegolob.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 14:26:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 09:56:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 18:40:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 18:40:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Today is both Flag Day and the birthday of the US Army. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_Day_%28United_States%29#1908.2C_Theodore_Roosevelt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oral tradition also notes that on this day<\/a> President Theodore Roosevelt got &#8220;riled up with national pride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>1908, Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n<p>Oral tradition passed on through multiple generations holds that on June 14, Theodore Roosevelt was dining outside Philadelphia, when he noticed a man wiping his nose with what he thought was the American Flag. In outrage, Roosevelt picked up a small wooden rod and began to whip the man for &#8220;defacing the symbol of America.&#8221; After about five or six strong whacks, he noticed that the man was not wiping his nose with a flag, but with a blue handkerchief with white stars. Upon realization of this, he apologized to the man, but hit him once more for making him &#8220;riled up with national pride.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliegolob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julie Golob<\/a> for the pointer to this interesting (and probably apocryphal) bit of historical trivia.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is both Flag Day and the birthday of the US Army. Oral tradition also notes that on this&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3766,3767],"class_list":["post-3212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flag-day","tag-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}