{"id":4492,"date":"2012-01-27T21:40:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T01:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2012-01-27T22:03:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T02:03:28","slug":"my-question-for-president-obama-on-his-state-of-the-union-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"My question for President Obama on his State of the Union address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is accepting questions on the State of the Union address at its YouTube channel, so I decided to submit one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. President, you have talked frequently about the need to avoid teaching to the test. Many educators believe Race to the Top is inconsistent with that value. Can you name <strong>one step<\/strong> you&#8217;ve taken to discourage teaching to the test?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><del><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/api\/moderator\/g\/ytmod\/view?channame=whitehouse&amp;title_text_color=1b3050&amp;wrapper_link_color=3978af&amp;box_background_color=eff1f3&amp;background_color=154B69&amp;link_color=3978af&amp;wrapper_color=e6e6e6&amp;wrapper_text_color=1b3050&amp;body_text_color=1b3050&amp;hl=en_US&amp;owner=360b5828adc21380&amp;box_opacity=255&amp;font=arial&amp;wrapper_opacity=255&amp;user=dc9f6cc31815e1cb#52\/e=1d206d&amp;tt=3\">Vote on it here<\/a>. (Yes, I would reword it slightly if I could, but it appears as if I cannot edit the question.) <\/del>Ah, shoot: apparently that&#8217;s just a link to one&#8217;s own questions, rather than how I can direct others to mine. Probably an honest way to work this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is accepting questions on the State of the Union address at its YouTube channel, so I decided to submit one: Mr. President, you have talked frequently about the need to avoid teaching to the test. Many educators believe Race to the Top is inconsistent with that value. Can you name one step [&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":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-1as","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}