{"id":12297,"date":"2017-02-07T11:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=12297"},"modified":"2017-02-07T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T16:59:14","slug":"betsy-devos-likely-to-get-education-post-despite-all-night-democratic-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/betsy-devos-likely-to-get-education-post-despite-all-night-democratic-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Betsy DeVos likely to get education post despite all-night Democratic protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Many sads for our children if we lose this one.<br \/>\nOnly a group of elitist fucks, whose children attend private schools because public schools are so inferior, could be in favor of putting a moron in charge of &#8216;fixing&#8217; the Dept. of Education.<br \/>\nOur kids deserve SO MUCH BETTER. #ThanksTrump<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kOBcwR\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kOBcwR<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many sads for our children if we lose this one. Only a group of elitist fucks, whose children attend private schools because public schools are so inferior, could be in favor of putting a moron in charge of &#8216;fixing&#8217; the Dept. of Education. Our kids deserve SO MUCH BETTER. #ThanksTrump http:\/\/bit.ly\/2kOBcwR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-12297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13997,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/08\/flea-removing-music-education-from-schools-is-child-abuse\/","url_meta":{"origin":12297,"position":0},"title":"Flea: Removing Music Education From Schools Is &#8216;Child Abuse&#8217;","date":"August 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Take the art out of school and you take the heart out of our children. 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Doesn't anyone understand how important it is to have the BEST schools in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10457,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/john-oliver-explains-why-racism-and-school-segregation-is-very-much-alive-in-2016\/","url_meta":{"origin":12297,"position":2},"title":"John Oliver explains why racism and school segregation is very much alive in 2016","date":"October 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Not sure I agreed with Mr Oliver on all of his points. For one thing, if the problem is underfunding of schools where students are mostly low income minorities, why is the strategy to solve the problem not to fund ALL schools equally? 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