{"id":2288,"date":"2014-02-17T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2015-03-26T05:17:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T05:17:36","slug":"pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen&#8217;s Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Zeke Hill<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Citizen&#8217;s Oath<br \/>\nI will say this now and for all days henceforth,<br \/>\nThat I pledge to be a citizen for all humanity, as true as they do come.<br \/>\nFor although the days may be dark,<br \/>\nAnd the Government uncaring.<br \/>\nDespite the corporate lies,<br \/>\nAnd endless sea of products, falsely advertised.<br \/>\nI will not falter,<br \/>\nNor will I ever cease to progress.<br \/>\nMy eyes shall be discerning,<br \/>\nAnd ears attuned to truth.<br \/>\nMy hands shall stretch to those in need,<br \/>\nAnd my tongue give voice to words of hope.<br \/>\nMy heart shall be my compass,<br \/>\nIn tangent with my mind.<br \/>\nTo lead me down the right path,<br \/>\nAnd to never look behind.<br \/>\nI choose to stand for the down trodden,<br \/>\nTo rise to any task.<br \/>\nI will vote in every election,<br \/>\nAnd shall do all that is within my grasp.<br \/>\nFor if I can only be a single grain of sand for justice,<br \/>\nOn the scale that is the world,<br \/>\nThen that is all I shall be.<br \/>\nBecause though the days are dark,<br \/>\nI have pledged to be a citizen for all mankind.<br \/>\nOne as true as true can be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">[typography font=&#8221;Droid Sans Mono&#8221; size=&#8221;9&#8243; size_format=&#8221;px&#8221;]Zeke Hill, known for getting into debates with his math teacher in middle school, sometimes writes things. This is one of those things. He intends to graduate with an AA and high school diploma in Spring 2014. He enjoys reading, philosophy, video games, piano, and writing. He has been home schooled, attended private school, online school, public school, and co-ops! He would like to thank you for reading, and says goodbye.[\/typography]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Zeke Hill Citizen&#8217;s Oath I will say this now and for all days henceforth, That I pledge to be a citizen for all humanity, as true as they do come. For although the days may be dark, And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/pledge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4248,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-edition","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}