{"id":7440,"date":"2007-02-24T05:28:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-24T10:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2007-02-24T05:28:03","modified_gmt":"2007-02-24T10:28:03","slug":"too-slick-but-not-too-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=7440","title":{"rendered":"TOO SLICK BUT NOT TOO SWIFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m guessing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2007\/02\/22\/Hernando\/FCAT_blessing_raises_.shtml\">principal<\/a> isn&#8217;t the sharpest knife in the drawer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BROOKSVILLE &#8211; It had been a hard Friday at Brooksville Elementary School, with lots of misbehavior that didn&#8217;t bode well for the start of state testing the following week.<\/p>\n<p>So the principal and a few staff members appealed to a higher power.<\/p>\n<p>They prayed and blessed their students&#8217; desks with prayer oil.<\/p>\n<p>While the Christian prayers and anointing took place after school hours on the night of Friday, Feb. 2, the oil was still on desks the following Monday when teachers opened their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Some felt the extra help crossed a line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We thought it was vandalism. It was greasy. It was oily,&#8221; said fourth-grade teacher Chris Becker, who resigned later that week to take a teaching job in Citrus County.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/patriotboy.blogspot.com\/2007_02_18_archive.html#8992921567667656805\">Jesus&#8217; General<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m guessing the principal isn&#8217;t the sharpest knife in the drawer: BROOKSVILLE &#8211; It had been a hard Friday at Brooksville Elementary School, with lots of misbehavior that didn&#8217;t bode well for the start of state testing the following week. So the principal and a few staff members appealed to a higher power. They prayed [&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":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440"}],"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=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}