{"id":1497432,"date":"2022-05-30T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497432"},"modified":"2022-05-30T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:29:43","slug":"san-francisco-giants-manager-puts-national-anthem-protest-on-hold-for-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-giants-manager-puts-national-anthem-protest-on-hold-for-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Giants Manager Puts National Anthem Protest On Hold For Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsan-francisco-giants-manager-puts-national-anthem-protest-on-hold-for-memorial-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kapler then confirmed that he would stand for the anthem for the Giants\u2019 game against the Philadelphia Phillies Monday. \u201cToday, I\u2019ll be standing for the anthem,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhile I believe strongly in the right to protest and the importance of doing so, I also believe strongly in honoring and mourning our country\u2019s service men and women who fought and died for that right. Those who serve in our military, and especially those who have paid the ultimate price for our rights and freedoms, deserve that acknowledgment and respect, and I am honored to stand on the line today to show mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/34011034\/san-francisco-giants-manager-gabe-kapler-plans-stand-national-anthem-memorial-day\">ESPN<\/a> reported Monday that Kapler did in fact stand for the anthem during the Giants\u2019 series opener against the Phillies, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/gabe-kapler-comes-out-for-national-anthem-on-memorial-day\">MLB.com<\/a> showed a picture of Kapler standing for the anthem with his hand over his heart, outside the visitors\u2019 dugout at Citizens Bank Park. Kapler wouldn\u2019t say if his protest would resume on Tuesday. \u201cI want to have my thoughts perfectly formulated,\u201d he said, via ESPN. \u201cI will formulate them and I will share them. I just don\u2019t have them right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another post on his blog, Kapler announced Friday that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-wake-of-uvalde-shooting-san-francisco-giants-manager-boycotting-national-anthem-until-he-feels-better-about-direction-of-america\">boycott the national anthem<\/a> before the Giants\u2019 game against the Cincinnati Reds, to protest gun violence and the direction of the country in the wake of the Uvalde shooting. \u201cWhen I was the same age as the children in Uvalde, my father taught me to stand for the pledge of allegiance when I believed my country was representing its people well or to protest and stay seated when it wasn\u2019t,\u201d Kapler wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t believe it is representing us well right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler postponed his protest of the national anthem for Memorial Day. In a post on his personal blog Monday, Kapler, who previously announced that he would be protesting the national anthem in the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, said he would postpone his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1497441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}