{"id":74867,"date":"2020-08-04T05:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T10:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74867"},"modified":"2020-08-01T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T14:19:07","slug":"wage-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74867","title":{"rendered":"Wage Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Teachers unions typically threaten to strike if they don&#8217;t get more money. It&#8217;s like strapping a bomb to the kid and saying, &#8220;Pay us the money or the kid gets it.&#8221;<\/p><p>This Time It&#8217;s Different. They strapped a bomb to themselves and are saying, &#8220;Close the school or the teacher gets it.&#8221;<\/p><p>Millions of parents are muttering, &#8220;Yeah? Push the damn button.&#8221;<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d hate to be a teacher that is, shall we say, a &#8220;skeptic&#8221; about Education Minnesota these days.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers unions typically threaten to strike if they don&#8217;t get more money. It&#8217;s like strapping a bomb to the kid and saying, &#8220;Pay us the money or the kid gets it.&#8221; This Time It&#8217;s Different. They strapped a bomb to themselves and are saying, &#8220;Close the school or the teacher gets it.&#8221; Millions of parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867","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=74867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74875,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74867\/revisions\/74875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}