{"id":1713,"date":"2009-09-05T08:28:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T12:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2009-09-05T08:28:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T12:28:04","slug":"alterknit-educashun-polticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"Alterknit educashun polticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the alternate reality where pundits and talk-show hosts live, Barack Obama is not going to say Tuesday that students have a personal responsibility to work hard in school. Somehow this is indoctrination, or maybe unseemly politicking for all the 7-year-olds who will be voting in 2012. Though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whyboysfail.com\/2009\/09\/05\/trying-to-crimp-president-obamas-potential-to-inspire\/\">Richard Whitmire<\/a> and many others are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eduwonk.com\/2009\/09\/bustin-up-the-joint.html\">scratching their heads<\/a> on this one, putative social conservatives evidently don&#8217;t want to echo the fundamentally conservative point Obama will make: put yourselves to work and get a stake in society.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do I really need to explain why the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwize.org\/the-paranoid-style-in-american-educational-politics\">paranoid style of education politics<\/a> is supremely nutty?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the alternate reality where pundits and talk-show hosts live, Barack Obama is not going to say Tuesday that students have a personal responsibility to work hard in school. Somehow this is indoctrination, or maybe unseemly politicking for all the 7-year-olds who will be voting in 2012. Though Richard Whitmire and many others are scratching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-out-of-left-field-friday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-rD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}