{"id":9,"date":"2007-06-03T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T19:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2007\/06\/03\/no-diploma-for-you-next\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T19:58:17","slug":"no-diploma-for-you-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/no-diploma-for-you-next\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No diploma for you. Next!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five students at the Galesburg  Illinois high school have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/EDUCATION\/06\/01\/graduation.decorum.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">denied their diplomas<\/a>, not for anything they did, but because people in the audience had the audacity to cheer when they walked across the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke Campbell, president of the Indianapolis school board, defended the idiocy.  &#8220;It&#8217;s an important, solemn occasion,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of time for celebration before and after.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I get the feeling Clark doesn&#8217;t get invited to too many celebrations before or after anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five students at the Galesburg Illinois high school have been denied their diplomas, not for anything they did, but because people in the audience had the audacity to cheer when they walked across the stage. Clarke Campbell, president of the Indianapolis school board, defended the idiocy. &#8220;It&#8217;s an important, solemn occasion,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s plenty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}