{"id":4386,"date":"2005-01-23T19:21:29","date_gmt":"2005-01-23T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2005-01-23T19:21:29","modified_gmt":"2005-01-23T19:21:29","slug":"i-am-so-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"I AM SO DEPRESSED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a rather lengthy discussion about the German homeschoolers over at <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/HEM-Networking\/message\/23613?threaded=1\">HEM-networking.<\/a>  So far, I think that Helen Hegener and I are the only ones who seem to think that homeschooling (or raising our kids) is a right as opposed to a &#8220;privilege&#8221; granted by the government.  This comment is pretty typical:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything is a privilege granted by the government in one way or another, if it weren&#8217;t then no one would spend so much time fighting to keep a privilege or get rid of one. You aren&#8217;t free if you have to fight to keep your rights and privileges, you may be more free then other people, but if your fighting then you aren&#8217;t free, it&#8217;s just an illusion. I&#8217;m not saying I agree with it, I&#8217;m only saying this is the nature of a government. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this the state of homeschooling in America?  I always thought that homeschoolers tended towards a libertarian slant and that I was right at home among them.  I&#8217;m starting to think that maybe I&#8217;m even outside the homeschooling mainstream.  Fortunately, at least, y&#8217;all seem to be right there with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a rather lengthy discussion about the German homeschoolers over at HEM-networking. So far, I think that Helen Hegener and I are the only ones who seem to think that homeschooling (or raising our kids) is a right as opposed to a &#8220;privilege&#8221; granted by the government. This comment is pretty typical: Everything is [&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\/4386"}],"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=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}