{"id":180302,"date":"2017-05-28T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/28\/from-the-mouth-of-babes\/"},"modified":"2017-05-28T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:21:00","slug":"from-the-mouth-of-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/28\/from-the-mouth-of-babes\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Mouth of Babes\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 8<sup>th<\/sup> graders were touring the Capitol, and they ran into the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n<p>When he offered to take a picture with them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2017\/05\/i-dont-want-to-be-associated-with-him-100-eighth-graders-refuse-to-pose-with-paul-ryan-during-dc-trip\/\">half of them refused, because they thought that he was a scumbag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">About 100 eighth grade students refused to pose with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Friday, snubbing the top Republican to protest his policies.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Though Ryan\u2019s official Instagram features a photo of him waving to a group students from South Orange Middle School in South Orange, New Jersey, it does not show their peers sitting in a park lot across the street, in an apparent rebuff of the GOP leader.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not just a picture,\u201d student Matthew Malespina told ABC News. \u201cIt\u2019s being associated with a person who puts his party before his country.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">When he learned of his school\u2019s impending photo op with Ryan, Malespina texted his mother he\u2019s \u201cjust not going to do it.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe point was, \u2018I don\u2019t want to be associated with him, and his policies and what he stands for,\u2019\u201d Matthew\u2019s mother Elissa Malespina said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">An equal number of students opted to participate in the photo.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good on them.<\/p>\n<p>I know that some tossers will bleat about &#8220;civility&#8221;, but this was a political photo-op.  If you disagree with the politics, you are obligated to refuse.<\/p>\n<p>The photo-refusniks should be getting extra credit in their civics class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of 8th graders were touring the Capitol, and they ran into the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan. When he offered to take a picture with them, half of them refused, because they thought that he was a scumbag: About 100 eighth grade students refused to pose with Speaker of the House Paul &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":[447,397,588,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-180302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-education","tag-fail","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180302"}],"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=180302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}