{"id":5913,"date":"2006-01-01T06:48:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2006-01-01T06:48:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T11:48:24","slug":"debunking-gop-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5913","title":{"rendered":"DEBUNKING GOP RHETORIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The politically conservative blog GOP3.com has a rather longish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop3.com\/?p=724\">post<\/a> up on home education.  It&#8217;s mostly on target, but this bit caused me to drop a comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>So how is the government and the teachers unions battling this threat? By fighting school choice and vouchers tooth and nail. If you can restrict a parents access to funds you can force them to use the only system they can afford.<\/strong> I hope and pray that school choice will become more of an issue in the upcoming election and that the amazingly successful programs that exist in this state are extended and expanded.  [emphasis in the original]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Non-sequitur, of course.<\/p>\n<p>And, as a bonus, I&#8217;m going to provide a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ontheborderline.net\/?p=2275\">link<\/a> to the post that directed me to GOP3.  The post itself is a little nothing throwaway (like what I do here all the time).  The comments, OTOH, are epic.  Grab a pot of coffee and set a spell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The politically conservative blog GOP3.com has a rather longish post up on home education. It&#8217;s mostly on target, but this bit caused me to drop a comment: So how is the government and the teachers unions battling this threat? By fighting school choice and vouchers tooth and nail. If you can restrict a parents access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913"}],"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=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}