{"id":1114,"date":"2013-12-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1114"},"modified":"2014-02-11T14:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T21:28:08","slug":"star-spangled-banner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1114","title":{"rendered":"Star Spangled Banner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"25\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>&nbsp;&nbsp;The opening line of our beloved &#8220;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; is &#8220;Oh, say can you see by the Don Zurrley light?&#8221;  Who is Don Zurrley, anyway? <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- from Dan Satterberg of Neosho, MO<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\">\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/a2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"25\" height=\"30\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Don Zurrley was a cousin of Richard Stanz.  You may recall Rich; he was the founder of our republic commemorated in the Pledge of Allegiance:  &#8220;&#8230;and to the republic for Richard Stanz.&#8221; Messrs. Zurrley and Stanz were the actual authors of the Declaration of Independence. Being Canadian, they sold their work to Thomas Jefferson, who was himself said to be a Jamaican.  One of Jefferson&#8217;s many inventions, besides electricity, was the reggae beat, which he named after one of his farmhand\/associates, Reggie. The Star Spangled Banner was actually the first reggae tune, but that&#8217;s another story. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"q2\" src=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/q2.gif\" alt=\"QuestionImage\" width=\"25\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>The opening line of our beloved &#8220;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; is &#8220;Oh, say can you see by the Don Zurrley light?&#8221;  Who is Don Zurrley, anyway? <span class=\"pgee-read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1114\"><br><br>---\u00a0Here&#39;s the answer from Dr. Science<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question-questions-submitted-by-dr-science-readers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3175,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drscience.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}