{"id":2601,"date":"2007-10-23T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/will_okun_disguised_silence\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T15:46:00","slug":"will_okun_disguised_silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2601","title":{"rendered":"Will Okun: Disguised Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When is silence not golden?<\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, Illinois lawmakers passed legislation that requires all public schools to provide students with a moment of silence at the beginning of the school day.<br \/>\nAnd, pray tell, how do you think the students are to utilize this moment of silence?<\/p>\n<p>Mandated silent prayer in the public schools? No, of course not, that would be illegal. Instead supporters claim the students can use this moment of silence as either an opportunity for silent prayer or \u201cfor silent reflection on the anticipated activities of the day.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Seriously?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kristof.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/15\/disguised-silence\/index.html?ref=opinion\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is silence not golden? Last Thursday, Illinois lawmakers passed legislation that requires all public schools to provide students with a moment of silence at the beginning of the school day. And, pray tell, how do you think the students<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=2601\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,111,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}