{"id":7898,"date":"2014-01-11T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2014-01-11T17:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T22:04:46","slug":"the-stupid-is-really-deep-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7898","title":{"rendered":"The stupid is really deep in Texas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have been a little lax in doing these lately but I have an excuse that works for me&#8230;and I guess that&#8217;s all I need&#8230;I did read a funny article&#8230;just a shorty&#8230;or maybe even on Twitter&#8230;not sure&#8230;but the gist of the article is the fight that is going on with the repubs for board of ed in Texas&#8230;and there was a scene straight from &#8220;Inherit the Wind&#8221; about the Scopes monkey trial early last century&#8230;yep, that long ago&#8230;when one of the candidates actually stood up in a public forum and asks for votes since she believes that &#8220;we didn&#8217;t come from no monkeys&#8221; &#8230;in this day and age, running for a position that will affect millions of Texas children&#8230;they still have viable candidates who are proud of their ignorance and passing that same ignorance on to their children&#8230;I&#8217;ll ask this one again&#8230;&#8221;what the hell is wrong with Texas?&#8221;\u00a0 geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;I have been a little lax in doing these lately but I have an excuse that works for me&#8230;and I guess that&#8217;s all I need&#8230;I did read a funny article&#8230;just a shorty&#8230;or maybe even on Twitter&#8230;not sure&#8230;but the gist of the article is the fight that is going on with the repubs for board of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=7898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The stupid is really deep in Texas&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1010,505],"class_list":["post-7898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-evolution","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}