{"id":363,"date":"2009-07-07T23:03:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T06:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:30:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:30:41","slug":"update-flyby-denied-for-christian-patriotic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/07\/update-flyby-denied-for-christian-patriotic-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: No Flyby for Christian Patriotic Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews has now picked up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/07\/07\/pentagon-denies-god-country-family-fesitval-fly-request\/?test=latestnews\">story<\/a>, previously <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=362\">noted<\/a>, of the Air Force&#8217;s decision not to provide a fly-by of the &#8220;God and Country Festival&#8221; in Nampa, Idaho.\u00a0 A &#8220;defense department official&#8221; repeated that the reason for the refusal was that it would have provided a &#8220;selective benefit.&#8221; Of note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force was in charge of the decision-making process, meaning neither the secretary of defense nor President Obama weighed in directly, the official said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Capt. Tom Wenz from Air Force public affairs told FOX News that past participation was due to the fact that the event was described only as a &#8220;patriotic tribute,&#8221; and the Air Force wasn&#8217;t aware until now of the apparent focus on Christianity, despite the festival&#8217;s name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FoxNews has now picked up the story, previously noted, of the Air Force&#8217;s decision not to provide a fly-by of the &#8220;God and Country Festival&#8221; in Nampa, Idaho.\u00a0 A &#8220;defense department official&#8221; repeated that the reason for the refusal was that it would have provided a &#8220;selective benefit.&#8221; Of note: The Air Force was in charge of the decision-making process, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,2,10],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}