{"id":3657,"date":"2004-09-24T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2004-09-24T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T12:35:10","slug":"boom-boom-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"BOOM!  BOOM!  BOOM!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the drumbeat leading us to compulsory weigh-ins in the g-schools.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-fat24.html\">Think I&#8217;m kidding?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With 9 million overweight schoolchildren, a number that has tripled since 1980, the new findings aim to give education leaders a traditional motivation for making changes: money.<\/p>\n<p>At least nine states that get state money based on student attendance, for example, are losing an estimated tens of millions of dollars because of absenteeism, a problem caused in part by the poor nutrition and inactivity of those missing school, the study says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I seriously doubted they could do it, but I should have had more faith.  They pulled it off.  Even the obesity mania is now &#8220;All About the Money&#8221; (TM).  Thank God we homeschool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the drumbeat leading us to compulsory weigh-ins in the g-schools. Think I&#8217;m kidding? With 9 million overweight schoolchildren, a number that has tripled since 1980, the new findings aim to give education leaders a traditional motivation for making changes: money. At least nine states that get state money based on student attendance, for example, [&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":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}