{"id":41,"date":"2014-06-25T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-06-25T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:06:26","slug":"vet-may-lose-home-for-displaying-us-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Vet May Lose Home for Displaying US Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijreview.com\/2014\/06\/150422-one-vets-stand-show-patriotism-might-cost-home\/\">stories like these<\/a> that I read that make me mad and wonder where in the world did our common sense go?<\/p>\n<p>Larry Murphfree is a proud US veteran.\u00a0 Like many wishes to display his patriotism.\u00a0 What better way then to put out a flag.\u00a0 So he did, a little flag in his flower pot out front.<\/p>\n<p>That little action created a big headache.<\/p>\n<p>He is being fined by his community Homeowner&#8217;s association, about $8,000 fine and a foreclosure lien on his house.<\/p>\n<p>Say What?\u00a0 Did we read that right?<\/p>\n<p>Yep, for a flag in a flower pot he could lose his home.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry, but if you live in the USA, if the flag upsets you, then perhaps its time for you to leave.<\/p>\n<p>If I lived in France, and a neighbor had a flag of France in front of his\/her house, so what.\u00a0 I&#8217;m in France.\u00a0 Its getting to the point where you almost have no problem flying other countries flags, but fly the US flag, get in trouble.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is actually the second story I&#8217;ve read like this in less than two weeks, the other was in Houston, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/local\/Man-says-apartment-complex-called-his-US-flag-a-threat-to-Muslim-community-263757051.html\">read it here<\/a>.\u00a0 In this story, a man hung a US flag on his balcony and was told to take it down because it was a threat to the muslim community.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>Its time to wake up, we can&#8217;t even show support in our country without someone be &#8216;offended&#8217;.\u00a0 Sorry, but if your offended, LEAVE!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its stories like these that I read that make me mad and wonder where in the world did our common sense go? Larry Murphfree is a proud US veteran.\u00a0 Like many wishes to display his patriotism.\u00a0 What better way then to put out a flag.\u00a0 So he did, a little flag in his flower pot [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=41\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[58,59,57,56],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-states","tag-fine","tag-forclusure","tag-larry-murphfree","tag-us-flag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}