{"id":1549,"date":"2012-02-18T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T20:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2012-02-18T16:16:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T21:16:56","slug":"whitney-houston-deserved-flags-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/02\/whitney-houston-deserved-flags-honor.html","title":{"rendered":"Whitney Houston Deserved Flags Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest here, OK?<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey deciding to fly its flags at half-staff for the death of <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong> was a nice honor.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was a music superstar and it&#8217;s important some people take pride in her and her accomplishments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1551\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1551\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/files\/2012\/02\/whitney-houston-w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1551\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/248\/2012\/02\/whitney-houston-w-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whitney Houston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Jersey governor <strong>Chris Christie<\/strong> isn&#8217;t perfect, by any means, but he made the right call with this one.<\/p>\n<p>Christie has more important things to do, besides blasting Newt Gingrich for whatever reason, than consider this for too long.<\/p>\n<p>As far as some people saying she deserved what happened because she was a &#8220;crackhead&#8221;, I am disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure where sympathy and empathy have gone in this nation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m saving all of mine &#8230; for you!<\/p>\n<p>Check out Matt&#8217;s posts on the New York Yankees at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yanksgoyard.com\/author\/mattster\/\">http:\/\/yanksgoyard.com\/author\/mattster\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest here, OK? New Jersey deciding to fly its flags at half-staff for the death of Whitney Houston was a nice honor. The woman was a music superstar and it&#8217;s important some people take pride in her and her accomplishments. New Jersey governor Chris Christie isn&#8217;t perfect, by any means, but he made&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12,6,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news","category-opinion","category-politics","category-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whitney Houston Deserved Flags Honor - Changing Channels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/02\/whitney-houston-deserved-flags-honor.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Whitney Houston Deserved Flags Honor - Changing Channels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let&#8217;s be honest here, OK? 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