{"id":3325,"date":"2017-06-16T01:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T16:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:44:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:44:36","slug":"the-f-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-f-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The F Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your own Olive checking in from an urban\u00a0public school. Yesterday, during the students&#8217; regular dose of Islamic indoctrination, one of the actors in a dramatic reading uttered the F word. Well, the students went wild. That got a big reaction, and I was very proud of our students, because we teach them not to talk like that, and we model professional behavior, and we would be hypocrites if we then turned around and let some actors in an assembly drop F-bombs everywhere.<br \/>\nAfter the students settled down, the performers carried on with their lament about how hard it was for Muslims in the U.S. after 9\/11. No mention of how hard it was for firefighters&#8217; families who lost loved ones on that day. No, the correct lamentation, and the only acceptable one, is for the lady on the bus wearing a hijab who may or not have received awkward looks in the days following 9\/11.<br \/>\nMove along, nothing to see here, every religion is OK to promote in public schools except Christianity, and every story is OK as long as the straight white male is the bad guy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3325\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"3325\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your own Olive checking in from an urban\u00a0public school. Yesterday, during the students&#8217; regular dose of Islamic indoctrination, one of the actors in a dramatic reading uttered the F word. Well, the students went wild. That got a big reaction, and I was very proud of our students, because we teach them not to talk like that, and we model professional behavior, and we would be hypocrites if we then turned around and let some actors in an assembly drop F-bombs everywhere.<br \/> After the students settled down, the performers carried on with their lament about how hard it was for Muslims in the U.S. after 9\/11. No mention of how hard it was for firefighters&#8217; families who lost loved ones on that day. No, the correct lamentation, &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/the-f-word\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}