{"id":33110,"date":"2024-10-04T08:29:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T12:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33110"},"modified":"2024-10-04T08:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T12:29:21","slug":"the-free-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33110","title":{"rendered":"The Free Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oklahoman.com\/story\/news\/2024\/10\/04\/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms\/75510021007\/\">Superintendent Ryan Walters<\/a> isn\u2019t just talking about buying Bibles for schools. <\/p>\n<p>Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.<\/p>\n<p>A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters. <\/p>\n<p>But one Bible fits perfectly: Lee Greenwood\u2019s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superintendent Ryan Walters isn\u2019t just talking about buying Bibles for schools. Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33111,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33110\/revisions\/33111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}