{"id":6170,"date":"2010-06-29T22:39:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T04:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2010-06-29T22:42:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T04:42:06","slug":"festival-denied-flyby-over-religious-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/festival-denied-flyby-over-religious-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival Denied Flyby over Religious Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources report that the Nampa, Idaho, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godandcountryfestival.com\/\">God and Country Festival<\/a> that occurs annually during the Independence Day holiday was again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox12idaho.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12724663\">denied a flyby<\/a> by US military aircraft because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khq.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12715265\">religious content of its festivities<\/a>.\u00a0 The festival was denied the flyover for the first time in over four decades <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/update-2-god-and-country-flyby\/\">just last year<\/a>.\u00a0 The policies relating to the decision-making process can be seen in the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/air-force-nixes-flyby-at-patriotic-christian-event\/\">discussion on the original controversy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the organizers have pointed out that they probably could have gotten a flyover if they&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2010\/06\/ap_military_idaho_flyover_controversy_062710\/\">minimized\u00a0religion within their event<\/a>.\u00a0 Still, they note the\u00a0military is\u00a0supporting the event with other means, including administering the oath of enlistment, and the theme of this year&#8217;s event is &#8220;honoring our nation&#8217;s WWII veterans,&#8221; a decidedly patriotic purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sources report that the Nampa, Idaho, God and Country Festival that occurs annually during the Independence Day holiday was again denied a flyby by US military aircraft because of the religious content of its festivities.\u00a0 The festival was denied the flyover for the first time in over four decades just last year.\u00a0 The policies relating to 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":[28],"tags":[4,221,682,2,683,17,10],"class_list":["post-6170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-flyby","tag-god-and-country","tag-military","tag-nampa","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170","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=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}