{"id":216,"date":"2007-09-17T18:35:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T01:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-09-17T18:35:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T01:35:15","slug":"the-preamble-of-the-constitution-of-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/famille.org\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"The Preamble of the Constitution of the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of, before we get to business&#8230; what&#8217;s with all the Llamas around here?&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>OK I knew someday this day would come.&nbsp; My son, Aaron, is now in fifth grade and must be able to recite the Preamble of the US Constitution in order to move on to sixth grade.&nbsp; When I was a kid, this was a requirement of 8th grade.&nbsp; But in my day, we weren&#8217;t learning algebra in fourth grade.&nbsp; Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I knew this day would come.&nbsp; My son wants to know how *I* memorized the constitution, or at least the preamble.&nbsp; And what is the response of everyone who passed through Junior High School in the 1970&#8217;s?&nbsp; School House Rock, of course! To this day, I can recite the Preamble from memory, thanks to that famous video.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure thousands of people my age are the same boat.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But what to do? the problem is, School House Rock is no longer on T.V. <em>every Saturday morning between every cartoon<\/em>, anymore.&nbsp; So what&#8217;s an over forty victim of fate to do? &nbsp; Sing the song to my kids?&nbsp; HAH!&nbsp; Fat chance.&nbsp; Now, it&#8217;s YOUTUBE to the rescue!<\/p>\n<p>In the next post, (one article up from this) you will find the actual youtube video of the School House Rock video that teaches the preamble.&nbsp; I can&#8217;t post it inline here because of a quirk with moveable type weblogs.&nbsp; Those of you who remember, can sing along.&nbsp; It brought a tear to my eye.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of, before we get to business&#8230; what&#8217;s with all the Llamas around here?&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42 OK I knew someday this day would come.&nbsp; My son, Aaron, is now in fifth grade and must be able to recite the Preamble of the US Constitution in order to move on to sixth grade.&nbsp; When I was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids-family"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"First of, before we get to business... what&#039;s with all the Llamas around here? :)OK I knew someday this day would come. 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