{"id":1057,"date":"2008-07-09T19:58:05","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T23:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2008-07-09T19:58:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T23:58:05","slug":"a-man-of-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"A Man of Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There aren&#8217;t many in the U.S. Senate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/homepage\/story\/43566.html\">but there&#8217;s at least one in North Carolina<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he&#8217;d ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms.<\/p>\n<p>Eason, a 29-year veteran of the state Department of Agriculture, instructed his staff at a small Raleigh lab not to fly the U.S. or North Carolina flags at half-staff Monday, as called for in a directive to all state agencies by Gov. Mike Easley.<\/p>\n<p>When a superior ordered the lab to follow the directive, Eason decided to retire rather than pay tribute to Helms\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There aren&#8217;t many in the U.S. Senate, but there&#8217;s at least one in North Carolina: L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he&#8217;d ever had rather than lower a flag to honor former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms. Eason, a 29-year veteran of the state Department of Agriculture, instructed his staff at a small Raleigh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}