{"id":193,"date":"2007-08-20T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/08\/20\/bulletproof-backpacks-in-case-your-kids-classmate-is-packing\/"},"modified":"2012-04-24T02:40:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T06:40:32","slug":"bulletproof-backpacks-in-case-your-kids-classmate-is-packing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/08\/20\/bulletproof-backpacks-in-case-your-kids-classmate-is-packing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulletproof Backpacks: In Case Your Kid&#8217;s Classmate Is Packing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mid-August, which means back-to-school day is just around the corner.\u00a0 And that in turn means it&#8217;s time to start shopping for school supplies: rulers and notebooks and pens and lunch boxes and calculators and computers and school clothes and &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2007\/08\/19\/4430063-sun.html\">bulletproof backpacks???<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just trying to give kids a defensive tool to use in case something does happen,&#8221; Curran said of the backpacks, which sell for $175 US. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Since they started selling online last week, they&#8217;ve sold out of their initial stock of several hundred backpacks and are now ordering a new shipment from Massachusetts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Methinks this calls for a limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Bulletproof Backpacks:\u00a0In Case Your Kid&#8217;s Classmate\u00a0Is Packing<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Selling bulletproof backpacks?\u00a0 How sad!<br \/>\nCould the safety of schools be so bad,<br \/>\nThat parents must buy<br \/>\nSuch an item? Oh my!<br \/>\nAre they needed, or just a mad fad?<\/p>\n<p>(You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/education_humor.html\">more of my school and education humor here.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mid-August, which means back-to-school day is just around the corner.\u00a0 And that in turn means it&#8217;s time to start shopping for school supplies: rulers and notebooks and pens and lunch boxes and calculators and computers and school clothes and &#8230; bulletproof backpacks??? &#8220;We&#8217;re just trying to give kids a defensive tool to use in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,39,13,89,42,18,86,45],"tags":[2940,2936,2135,2937,2939,2938],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-humor","category-education-humor","category-family-humor","category-guns-safety-humor","category-limericks","category-parents-humor","category-polls","category-shopping-humor","tag-back-to-school","tag-bulletproof-backpacks","tag-education-limerick","tag-school-safety","tag-school-supplies","tag-schooling-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13173,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/13173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}