{"id":1606,"date":"2009-09-04T07:10:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T13:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2009-09-04T07:10:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T13:10:47","slug":"stay-in-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Stay in school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the duly elected President of the United States will deliver a message to students across the land.&nbsp; The message?&nbsp; Stay in school.&nbsp; Fair enough.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_09\/019770.php\">Reagan did it, so did Bush Sr<\/a>.&nbsp; Bush Jr., I remember, went to read to children in a school back in September of 2001.&nbsp; Reagan and Bush Sr. delivered explicitly political messages (Reagan even talked about gun control).&nbsp; Here, for your viewing enjoyment, is the reaction of one particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/mmtv\/200909020020\">unscrupulous right wing talker<\/a>.&nbsp; Key point: Obama&#39;s stay in school speech is &quot;not entirely consistent with the idea of education.&quot;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/columns\/200909030002\">Genius<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday the duly elected President of the United States will deliver a message to students across the land.&nbsp; The message?&nbsp; Stay in school.&nbsp; Fair enough.&nbsp; Reagan did it, so did Bush Sr.&nbsp; Bush Jr., I remember, went to read to children in a school back in September of 2001.&nbsp; Reagan and Bush Sr. delivered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1606\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stay in school<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unclassifiable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}