{"id":1602,"date":"2009-09-04T20:14:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T00:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=1602"},"modified":"2009-09-04T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T00:16:36","slug":"obama-school-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/09\/04\/obama-school-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Bring &#8220;Classiness&#8221; To the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when a presidential speech to school kids was considered positive and uncontroversial?  Back when <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/57333-gibbs-slams-opposition-to-school-speech \">Republicans<\/a> were in the White House? Funny, what a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_09\/019789.php \">difference one election<\/a> can make. <\/p>\n<p>President Obama wants to address schoolchildren about working hard, being responsible and playing by the rules, and all hell breaks loose:<\/p>\n<p>Republicans Bring Classiness To the Classroom (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Act responsibly.  Stay in your schools.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Study hard and please play by the rules.&#8221;<br \/>\nHow dare the Prez preach<br \/>\nSuch sins in his speech!<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t <strong>no<\/strong> way to breed right-wing tools.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/education_president_song.html\">&#8220;Education President&#8221; Song;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/education_humor.html\">Education Humor;<\/a>  and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/education_president.html\">Bush Isn&#8217;t An &#8220;Education President,&#8221; He Just Plays One<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when a presidential speech to school kids was considered positive and uncontroversial? Back when Republicans were in the White House? Funny, what a difference one election can make. President Obama wants to address schoolchildren about working hard, being responsible and playing by the rules, and all hell breaks loose: Republicans Bring Classiness To the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,885,20,159,6,7,3,9,88,887,886,17],"tags":[890,215,522,200,888,702,889,891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}