{"id":6945,"date":"2015-07-06T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2015-07-06T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T17:48:23","slug":"monticello-53rd-annual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/monticello-53rd-annual\/","title":{"rendered":"Monticello 53rd annual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6946\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-monticello.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-monticello.jpg\" alt=\"nickel porch\" width=\"1028\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-monticello.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-monticello-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-monticello-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOB Terence R. McAuliffe, Governor of Virginia, addressed the crowd gathered for the 53rd annual Independence Day Celebration and Naturalization Ceremony at Monticello.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6948\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-Pipeline-protest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-Pipeline-protest.jpg\" alt=\"pipeline protest\" width=\"1028\" height=\"686\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-Pipeline-protest.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-Pipeline-protest-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-Pipeline-protest-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Court was called into session, petitioners at Monticello took the oath of citizenship. McAuliffe posed for photos with the new citizens. I am fairly sure the Governor did not pause, on his way up to Monticello,  for photos with these petitioners. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/mcauliffe-backs-550-mile-natural-gas-pipeline-disappointing-environmentalists\/2014\/09\/02\/e1bd59c6-32a5-11e4-a723-fa3895a25d02_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8220;Macster&#8221; is a  deal maker<\/a>. Energy companies are granted audience, common citizens can hold their breath.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6947\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-new-citizens-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-new-citizens-detail.jpg\" alt=\"new citizens\" width=\"1028\" height=\"669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-new-citizens-detail.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-new-citizens-detail-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/150704-new-citizens-detail-1024x666.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The naturalization ceremony provides a happier meditation on the strengths of our country.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.&#8221;-Oath of Citizenship<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6955,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}