{"id":77748,"date":"2021-05-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77748"},"modified":"2021-05-02T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T19:18:47","slug":"hope-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77748","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stillwater students stage a walkout&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and I can hear you tuning out already, thinking this is just another bit of canned outrage, with &#8220;woke&#8221; teachers and administrators using students as their pawns, but hear me out&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;in favor of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/minnesota-news\/stillwater-high-schoolers-stage-back-the-blue-walkout-\/6091336\/?fbclid=IwAR2Bj4GYkyk035wAVc75bNH8T-P4gLzKdNFXlSddanN361fC8nA61ICFtIU#.YI2psYLYx5M.facebook\">Back the Blue<\/a>&#8220;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A group of Stillwater Area High school students walked out of class Thursday morning to show support for police officers.<\/p><p>Students were encouraged to wear blue and bring thin blue line flags. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Look &#8211; I&#8217;m not a police fanboy.   I think bad cops get the same treatment as bad criminals; being a bad cop is a betrayal of the trust (and power) the public gives them.  I&#8217;m conservative enough to know why we need poice &#8211; and libertarian enough to want <em>just enough <\/em>policing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we don&#8217;t have just enough of it in the Metro.  Not even close .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s focus on the kids.  The fact that some of them are being heard <em>against <\/em>the woke mob is encouraging.   With a little luck, and good parenting, perhaps they&#8217;ll start engaging the commies in the classroom, too <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is to be supported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stillwater students stage a walkout&#8230; &#8230;and I can hear you tuning out already, thinking this is just another bit of canned outrage, with &#8220;woke&#8221; teachers and administrators using students as their pawns, but hear me out&#8230; &#8230;in favor of &#8220;Back the Blue&#8220;. A group of Stillwater Area High school students walked out of class Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748","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=77748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77749,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77748\/revisions\/77749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}