{"id":177575,"date":"2019-08-14T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/14\/truly-elegant-troll\/"},"modified":"2019-08-14T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T23:19:00","slug":"truly-elegant-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/14\/truly-elegant-troll\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly Elegant Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ssmgEgp.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/ssmgEgp.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a>Because they have way too much free time, and because they want to force their views on others, the Kentucky legislature pass a law requiring schools to prominently display the national motto, &#8220;In God we trust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response, Fayette County Public Schools is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentucky.com\/news\/local\/education\/article233993192.html\">hanging framed dollar bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well played:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">When Brittany Pike saw the back of a dollar bill framed at Lexington\u2019s Athens Chilesburg Elementary School last week, she couldn\u2019t have been more pleased.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Pike took a photo and posted it on Facebook Wednesday along with this message about Fayette County Public Schools\u2019 response to Kentucky\u2019s new law that requires the national \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d motto to be displayed prominently at schools:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThis school year Kentucky began requiring schools to place \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d in the building. I absolutely love living in a school district that wants to follow the law while also ensuring EVERY student feels welcomed back regardless of religious beliefs. Thank you so very much Fayette County Public Schools for simply posting a dollar with \u2018In God We Trust.\u2019 My kids don\u2019t feel awkward or excluded for not believing in any God.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Fayette Superintendent Manny Caulk said Wednesday afternoon that in complying with the new law, \u201call schools in our district have been provided a framed version of an enlarged copy of a $1 dollar bill to display in a prominent location.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they have way too much free time, and because they want to force their views on others, the Kentucky legislature pass a law requiring schools to prominently display the national motto, &#8220;In God we trust.&#8221; In response, Fayette County Public Schools is hanging framed dollar bills. Well played: When Brittany Pike saw the back &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[397,449,380,390,584],"class_list":["post-177575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-education","tag-legislation","tag-religion","tag-snark","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}