{"id":118,"date":"2008-03-26T22:37:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T02:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/03\/26\/teenagers-designing-public-policy-great-idea\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T02:37:47","slug":"teenagers-designing-public-policy-great-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/teenagers-designing-public-policy-great-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers Designing Public Policy &#8211; Great Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A high school project in New Jersey asked teens to design public policy.\u00c2\u00a0 They designed one that requires Big Brother to punish kids for making incorrect decisions, proving that government schools are doing a fine job of raising the next generation of sheep.<\/p>\n<p>The new bill would fine kids caught possessing tobacco or smoking in public places.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbergenite.com\/NC\/0\/1033.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> quotes Marie Kakogiannis, a junior at Rutherford High School.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great way for kids not to smoke, but kids are going to find a way to do it. But whatever the government could do to prevent it, they should.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only a high school junior, and she&#8217;s already a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/nov02\/nicotine.html\">Nicotine Nazi<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that cute?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A high school project in New Jersey asked teens to design public policy.\u00c2\u00a0 They designed one that requires Big Brother to punish kids for making incorrect decisions, proving that government schools are doing a fine job of raising the next generation of sheep. The new bill would fine kids caught possessing tobacco or smoking in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}