{"id":1199,"date":"2003-04-26T04:01:18","date_gmt":"2003-04-26T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2003-04-26T04:01:18","modified_gmt":"2003-04-26T04:01:18","slug":"wimpy-wimpy-wimpy-homeschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"WIMPY, WIMPY, WIMPY Homeschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>WIMPY, WIMPY, WIMPY<\/b><\/i> Homeschoolers in Florida are allowed by law to participate in sports and other extra-curriculars.  Some homeschooling parents think that should include the prom and they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suwanneedemocrat.com\/articles\/2003\/04\/25\/suwannee\/news03.txt\">begging for crumbs <\/a>from the edu-table.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m asking you to develop a working production bridge between these two communities now,&#8221; Benson said. &#8220;These kids in your community are rewriting the manual in education. Please help us build this bridge and make it a strong one. <b>All we ask is that you let us be a part of this family.&#8221;<\/b> [emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever happened to the self-reliant homeschooling community?  This is not an isolated incident.  I&#8217;m beginning to think that homeschoolers participating in government-school sports might threaten the whole movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIMPY, WIMPY, WIMPY Homeschoolers in Florida are allowed by law to participate in sports and other extra-curriculars. Some homeschooling parents think that should include the prom and they&#8217;re begging for crumbs from the edu-table. &#8220;I&#8217;m asking you to develop a working production bridge between these two communities now,&#8221; Benson said. &#8220;These kids in your community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"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=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}