{"id":2222,"date":"2005-05-05T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2018-06-09T08:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T13:54:30","slug":"2222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/05\/2222\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Reality, and There&#8217;s Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benton Harbor, Michigan, school officials <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/article\/20050505\/D89T2QU01.html\" target=\"_new\">prohibit a marching band from playing &#8220;Louie Louie&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pop culture controversy that has simmered for decades came to a head when a middle school marching band was told not to perform &#8220;Louie Louie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Benton Harbor Superintendent Paula Dawning cited the song&#8217;s allegedly raunchy lyrics in ordering the McCord Middle School band not to perform it in Saturday&#8217;s Grand Floral Parade, held as part of the Blossomtime Festival.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter sent home with McCord students, Dawning said &#8220;Louie Louie&#8221; was not appropriate for Benton Harbor students to play while representing the district &#8211; even though the marching band wasn&#8217;t going to sing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That the lyrics aren&#8217;t really raunchy didn&#8217;t factor into the decision, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benton Harbor, Michigan, school officials prohibit a marching band from playing &#8220;Louie Louie&#8221;: A pop culture controversy that has simmered for decades came to a head when a middle school marching band was told not to perform &#8220;Louie Louie.&#8221; Benton Harbor Superintendent Paula Dawning cited the song&#8217;s allegedly raunchy lyrics in ordering the McCord Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20151,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions\/20151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}