{"id":1739,"date":"2009-10-12T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2009-10-12T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T13:57:14","slug":"news-item-boy-scout-suspended-for-being-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"News item: Boy Scout suspended for being prepared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/12\/education\/12discipline.html\">suspension of Zacharie Christie<\/a> is the latest tomfoolery in zero-sense discipline policies, because the tyke decided to bring his Boy Scout cutlery to school. Next: Fox News special on the Evil Spork. And this brings to mind a parody of medieval-fandom-society &#8220;weapons at the door&#8221; policies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Bard was next whose goodly Voice has entertained us all<br \/>but he, too, was prevented from entering the Hall<br \/>and told he could not carry deadly weapons on the floor<br \/>he left his Voice and Harp among the weapons at the door<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8212; Joe Bethancourt, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitetreeaz.com\/joeb\/songbk.htm#77\">Weapons at the Door<\/a>&#8221; (1974)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suspension of Zacharie Christie is the latest tomfoolery in zero-sense discipline policies, because the tyke decided to bring his Boy Scout cutlery to school. Next: Fox News special on the Evil Spork. And this brings to mind a parody of medieval-fandom-society &#8220;weapons at the door&#8221; policies: A Bard was next whose goodly Voice has [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-s3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}