{"id":7867,"date":"2007-07-31T06:45:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T10:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2007-07-31T06:45:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T10:45:33","slug":"lotd-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7867","title":{"rendered":"LOTD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Fayetteville Observer<\/em> publishes more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fayobserver.com\/article?id=268587#1\">xenophobic rants<\/a> than any website this side of Stormfront (no link):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taxes need to be spent teaching kids English<\/p>\n<p>After reading the article about teaching children Spanish in kindergarten (\u201cKids dive into Spanish,\u201d July 26), I really must protest that my tax money is being used to teach this and not English.<\/p>\n<p>This is the United States of America. We speak American English here. President Teddy Roosevelt said it best, \u201cThis country has no need for hyphenated Americans. One flag, one language, one country!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To the people who don\u2019t want to do this, go back to where you came from. This country does not need you.<\/p>\n<p>To those making the decision to teach Spanish to our children, you are not helping this country fix any problems, you are helping to destroy it.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Robinson<br \/>\nFayetteville <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fayetteville Observer publishes more xenophobic rants than any website this side of Stormfront (no link): Taxes need to be spent teaching kids English After reading the article about teaching children Spanish in kindergarten (\u201cKids dive into Spanish,\u201d July 26), I really must protest that my tax money is being used to teach this and [&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\/7867"}],"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=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}