{"id":5185,"date":"2005-06-30T19:19:53","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=5185"},"modified":"2005-06-30T19:19:53","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T19:19:53","slug":"heads-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5185","title":{"rendered":"HEADS UP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/NewsContent\/0,13319,FL_army_063005,00.html\">Uncle Sam wants you<\/a> (or, more precisely, your kids):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Army will try to reverse the downturn later this year by adding an additional 800 recruiters and exploring options that include focusing on home-schooled teenagers and signing up more soldiers who score in the lower half of military aptitude tests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Laura Derrick, president of the National Home Education Network, said she believes the Army is smart to focus on home-schoolers but there aren&#8217;t enough of them &#8220;to put a dent in what they are looking at.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Derrick said a significant number of children who are home-schooled are in military families. One challenge for the Army will be figuring out how to contact them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Home-schooling families aren&#8217;t that easy to reach,&#8221; she said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn straight, we&#8217;re not.  That&#8217;s not a bug; it&#8217;s a feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Sam wants you (or, more precisely, your kids): The Army will try to reverse the downturn later this year by adding an additional 800 recruiters and exploring options that include focusing on home-schooled teenagers and signing up more soldiers who score in the lower half of military aptitude tests. &#8230; Laura Derrick, president of [&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\/5185"}],"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=5185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}