{"id":342993,"date":"2026-06-02T14:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342993\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:21:35","slug":"we-should-be-able-to-enjoy-patriotism-without-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342993\/","title":{"rendered":"We should be able to enjoy patriotism without politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: I\u2019ve always respected columnist Todd Martens\u2019 insightful reporting on theme parks. But I was perplexed by his \u201ccringe\u201d in viewing the advance peek at Disneyland\u2019s new Soarin\u2019 Across America attraction and its inclusion of the Statue of Liberty, the American flag and the bald eagle (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/travel\/newsletter\/2026-05-26\/soarin-across-america-disneyland-patriotism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDisneyland goes all in on patriotism. Classic or cringe?,\u201d<\/a> May 26).<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to this nation\u2019s 250th birthday and an exciting, feel-good attraction such as Soarin\u2019, can we not come together and set aside politics for a few minutes? Are we unable to savor the natural beauty of our nation\u2019s famed parks and memorials that should transcend any presidential administration?<\/p>\n<p>If Martens is so offended by Disney\u2019s celebration of America\u2019s history, hope and promise, perhaps he would feel better by tossing any clothes that bear red, white and blue. Or perhaps have another talk with Disney Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald and really consider his reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Robinette, Van Nuys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: I\u2019ve always respected columnist Todd Martens\u2019 insightful reporting on theme parks. But I was perplexed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[141164,163,165,164,8403,3588,1341,2072,141166,418,5178,141167,11139,1524,141165,117906,22664,13562],"class_list":["post-342993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-america-attraction","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-celebration","tag-disney","tag-disneyland","tag-editor","tag-famed-park","tag-history","tag-hope","tag-insightful-reporting","tag-liberty","tag-nation","tag-new-soarin","tag-patriotism","tag-politic","tag-statue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}