{"id":191264,"date":"2009-09-08T21:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/08\/on-obamas-school-speech\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T21:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T02:39:00","slug":"on-obamas-school-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/09\/08\/on-obamas-school-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"On Obama&#8217;s School Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t give a damn what crazy people say, which is what the controversy is all about, though when <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Newt Gingrich<\/span> said that, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0909\/26865.html\">It\u2019s a good speech<\/a>,&#8221; and that, &#8220;I recommend it to everybody if you have any doubts. I would love to have every child in America read it, think about it, and learn that they should stay in school and they should study,&#8221; I did look out my window for pigs flying or a rain of frogs.<\/p>\n<p>The contraversy is like dealing with s 3 year old in full tantrum.  Put him in a place with no sharp edges, and do something else.<\/p>\n<p>Anything else just encourages more tantrums.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img34.imageshack.us\/img34\/8762\/cagle004113145.gif\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really don&#8217;t give a damn what crazy people say, which is what the controversy is all about, though when Newt Gingrich said that, &#8220;It\u2019s a good speech,&#8221; and that, &#8220;I recommend it to everybody if you have any doubts. I would love to have every child in America read it, think about it, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191264"}],"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=191264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}