{"id":32207,"date":"2021-07-23T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32207"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T19:28:23","slug":"a-nation-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32207","title":{"rendered":"A Nation at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Reader has my current column up on the website. Its called the <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2021\/07\/22\/118881-the-federal-school-board\"><strong>Federal School Board<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll confess I&#8217;m pretty disapointed in it. First there was the issue of my spell check which wasn&#8217;t working. I missed a lot of misspellings especially of words with double consonants which have always been a bugaboo for me. For instance just now I typed mispellings&#8230;&#8230;.missing the miss.<\/p>\n<p>But some of my chronology was also wrong and even the sequence of this topic is a little troublesome. I wrote out a tentative sequence for installments when I began but my 800 word approach and the range of education topics is dangerously random.<\/p>\n<p>I just spent an hour redoing the column but even now I&#8217;m not prepared to offer it up as an alternative to the Reader. A better title might have been:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1367896565l\/6892986.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Reader has my current column up on the website. Its called the Federal School Board. I&#8217;ll confess I&#8217;m pretty disapointed in it. First&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32208,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32207\/revisions\/32208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}