{"id":6468,"date":"2006-05-25T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2006-05-25T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T22:16:22","slug":"95-a-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6468","title":{"rendered":"95% A-OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, I&#8217;m linking approvingly to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/courtreport\/V22N3\/V22N304.asp\">essay<\/a> over at HSLDA.  It&#8217;s really good, at least until the very end:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Constitution is uncomfortably silent regarding parental rights. This is simply because, at the time of the Constitution\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing, there was a cultural consensus that parents possessed ultimate authority over their children. Now, that consensus is gradually giving way to an &#8220;it takes a village&#8221; mentality. The proof of this drift is demonstrated by invasive homeschool laws such as Pennsylvania\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, with its burdensome reporting requirements. Our country needs a constitutional amendment protecting parental rights!<\/p>\n<p>Home School Legal Defense Association has won many battles for parental rights. But the war can only be won when the Constitution explicitly guarantees our right to direct the upbringing and education of our children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is it with those folks and amending the Constitution?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, I&#8217;m linking approvingly to a essay over at HSLDA. It&#8217;s really good, at least until the very end: The Constitution is uncomfortably silent regarding parental rights. This is simply because, at the time of the Constitution\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writing, there was a cultural consensus that parents possessed ultimate authority over their children. Now, [&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\/6468"}],"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=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}