{"id":211,"date":"2017-06-19T06:55:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewinooski.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2017-06-19T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T10:55:12","slug":"vermont-to-add-the-words-community-and-kindness-to-official-state-motto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/vermont-to-add-the-words-community-and-kindness-to-official-state-motto\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont to Add the Words &#8220;Community&#8221; and &#8220;Kindness&#8221; to Official State Motto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTPELIER &#8211; In a rare non-partisan and unanimous vote, the Vermont state legislature last week approved the addition of two words to the existing state motto. The original motto of &#8220;Freedom and Unity&#8221; was adopted in 1788 and has been on the state seal ever since. The updated motto will now read &#8220;Freedom, Unity, Community, and Kindness.&#8221; Governor Phil Scott praised the move as &#8220;&#8230;an important step toward showing the importance of all people, and what we truly think of them.&#8221; The new state seal was unveiled today, and will go into official use on January 1, 2018, although it is not able to be shown on television without being blurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>MONTPELIER &#8211; In a rare non-partisan and unanimous vote, the Vermont state legislature last week approved the addition of two words to the existing state <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/19\/vermont-to-add-the-words-community-and-kindness-to-official-state-motto\/\" title=\"Vermont to Add the Words &#8220;Community&#8221; and &#8220;Kindness&#8221; to Official State Motto\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montpelier","category-vermont-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/TWFI-2017_06_19.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JVRF-3p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewinooski.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}