{"id":1004,"date":"2004-07-07T18:14:38","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T22:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/flag_burning_flag_waving\/"},"modified":"2004-07-07T18:14:38","modified_gmt":"2004-07-07T22:14:38","slug":"flag_burning_flag_waving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/flag_burning_flag_waving\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag Burning = Flag Waving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Volokh makes a pretty good point in <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2004_07_07.shtml#1089225139\">countering the argument that flag burning is not &#8220;speech&#8221;<\/a>, thus protected by the First Amendment: Does Congress have the authority to ban flag waving (e.g., the Confederate flag)?  Most people would say no.  Why?  Because flag waving is a symbolic expression&#8211;it&#8217;s a form of speech.<br \/>\nFrom a constitutional standpoint, what&#8217;s the difference between flag waving and flag burning?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/07\/flag_burning_flag_waving\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Flag Burning = Flag Waving\"><p>Eugene Volokh makes a pretty good point in countering the argument that flag burning is not &#8220;speech&#8221;, thus protected by the First Amendment: Does Congress have the authority to ban flag waving (e.g., the Confederate flag)? Most people would say no. Why? Because flag waving is a symbolic expression&#8211;it&#8217;s a form of speech. From a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}