{"id":1516,"date":"2004-03-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/08\/terrorist_refus\/"},"modified":"2004-03-08T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-08T17:30:00","slug":"terrorist_refus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/08\/terrorist_refus\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorist Refuses Teacher of the Year Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts teacher of the year said no, thank you, to Secretary of Education Rod Paige.  Jeff Ryan said he didn\u2019t go to an event in Washington to accept the award because Paige called the national teacher\u2019s union a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d  Ryan also said he boycotted the event to protest the No Child Left Behind Act, calling it a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A38745-2004Mar7.html\">stealth tactic by the Bush administration to undermine pubic schools<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts teacher of the year said no, thank you, to Secretary of Education Rod Paige. Jeff Ryan said he didn\u2019t go to an event in Washington to accept the award because Paige called the national teacher\u2019s union a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d Ryan also said he boycotted the event to protest the No Child Left Behind&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/03\/08\/terrorist_refus\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}