{"id":10377,"date":"2010-09-18T13:51:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10377"},"modified":"2010-09-18T13:51:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T17:51:30","slug":"stupid-school-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10377","title":{"rendered":"STUPID SCHOOL TRICKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First Amendment?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/articles\/2010\/09\/17\/1031286?sac=#comments\"><em><strong>What<\/strong><\/em> First Amendment?<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A soft-spoken 14-year-old&#8217;s nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion.<\/p>\n<p>Ariana Iacono says she just wants to be a normal teenager at Clayton High School, about 15 miles southeast of Raleigh. She has been suspended since last week because her nose ring violates the Johnston County school system&#8217;s dress code.<\/p>\n<p>Iacono and her mother, Nikki, belong to the Church of Body Modification, a small group unfamiliar to rural North Carolina, but one with a clergy, a statement of beliefs and a formal process for accepting new members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The morons in the district office are threatening to send her to juvi school.  The nose stud is so tiny it&#8217;s almost invisible.  There is no way in hell that her having it interferes with the school&#8217;s mission.  This is a power play, pure and simple.  The authoritarians in the district office think they ought to be able to decide which religions are and which are not &#8220;legitimate.&#8221;  They&#8217;re wrong and they&#8217;ll lose in court.  And, in the process, waste tens of thousands of tax dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to click over to the story for a photo of the offending stud.  And I&#8217;m not sure that some of the comments aren&#8217;t good examples of Poe&#8217;s Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Amendment? What First Amendment? A soft-spoken 14-year-old&#8217;s nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion. Ariana Iacono says she just wants to be a normal teenager at Clayton High School, about 15 miles southeast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10378,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10377\/revisions\/10378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}