{"id":1943,"date":"2008-01-10T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2008-01-10T08:44:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T13:44:23","slug":"eden-prairie-students-plan-walkout-over-facebook-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1943","title":{"rendered":"Like, Totally Bogus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all for privacy &#8211; as in, &#8220;more than you&#8221;, whomever you are (and that means you too, Chuck Samuelson).  As someone whose free speech Hillary Clinton has in her cross-hairs, I&#8217;m obviously a First-Amendment advocate (and the rest of the Bill of Rights as well).  And I&#8217;m <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?cat=34\">a pretty forthright critic of the public school system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I still would like to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/13663951.html?page=2&#038;c=y\">these kids tossed out on their ears<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirteen Eden Prairie High students who were pictured drinking online face penalties. <strong>Some students are planning a walkout<\/strong> after first period this morning, and they&#8217;re promoting the protest where the controversy began: on Facebook.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The walkout &#8211; as opposed to a job strike &#8211; has always struck me as the most gutless and snotty form of protest, in general.  I don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s teaching these kids about rhetoric, civil disobedience and protest, but if it&#8217;s a teacher, the district should get its money back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all for privacy &#8211; as in, &#8220;more than you&#8221;, whomever you are (and that means you too, Chuck Samuelson). As someone whose free speech Hillary Clinton has in her cross-hairs, I&#8217;m obviously a First-Amendment advocate (and the rest of the Bill of Rights as well). And I&#8217;m a pretty forthright critic of the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}