{"id":8753,"date":"2011-02-23T23:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T04:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8753"},"modified":"2011-02-24T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T14:48:44","slug":"gettysburg-address-now-illegal-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8753\/gettysburg-address-now-illegal-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Gettysburg Address Now Illegal in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an upside to the prospect of a shutdown of the federal government? <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/02\/22\/intern-learns-the-hard-way-that-its-illegal-to-recite-the-gettysburg-address-on-the-steps-of-the-lincoln-memorial-without-a-permit\/#ixzz1EqdEcI5n\" target=\"_blank\">This gem<\/a> from the Daily Caller&#8217;s Chris Moody ought to do it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fast fact: It is illegal to deliver the Gettysburg Address on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial without permission from the U.S. National Park Service.<\/p>\n<p>On President\u2019s Day \u2014 standing where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his \u201cI Have a Dream Speech\u201d \u2014 Phillip Howell, 25, recited Lincoln\u2019s famous address and was quickly stopped by a Park Police officer. He told Howell that he could not give speeches on the steps of the memorial without a permit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called me Abe, and then I turned around and he said, \u2018Do you have a permit?\u2019 I said \u2018no\u2019 and he said, \u2018well you can\u2019t do that here then,\u2019\u201d Howell told The Daily Caller. \u201cThen I said, \u2018I\u2019m just giving the Gettysburg Address, come on, it\u2019s President\u2019s Day.\u2019 And he said, \u2018I don\u2019t care what you\u2019re giving, You\u2019re not allowed to do that here. I don\u2019t care what speech or what agenda you want to give.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for an upside to the prospect of a shutdown of the federal government? This gem from the Daily Caller&#8217;s Chris Moody ought to do it: Fast fact: It is illegal to deliver the Gettysburg Address on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial without permission from the U.S. National Park Service. On President\u2019s Day \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[956,2428,2198,716,503,2424,2425,2427,2423,2426],"class_list":["post-8753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-chris-moody","tag-daily-caller","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-gettysburg-address","tag-lincoln-memorial","tag-park-police","tag-presidents-day","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8756,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8753\/revisions\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}