{"id":3524,"date":"2007-01-03T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T20:15:54","slug":"red-on-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/03\/red-on-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Red on Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/education\/story\/746AEC1D6B669AA386257257001547FE?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Missouri school districts going to court for more state money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a massive case that could put hundreds of millions of state tax dollars on the line, about half of the state&#8217;s 524 school districts will go to court this week demanding more state education money.<\/p>\n<p>The school districts will attempt to establish that the more than $2.7 billion Missouri spends on its public schools is inadequate to give children a chance at a decent education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I briefly considered getting an education degree.  I&#8217;m sure that turning to English and Philosophy instead has left me with inadequate steeping in the esoteric knowledge that transmutes <i>squandering the people&#8217;s tax money on suing to get more of the people&#8217;s tax money<\/i> into a positive value.<\/p>\n<p>But fortunately, I have unelected bureaucrats with more knowledge than me to squander my tax money trying to get more tax money.  Heck, I play the lottery; why shouldn&#8217;t my betters in the government?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri school districts going to court for more state money: In a massive case that could put hundreds of millions of state tax dollars on the line, about half of the state&#8217;s 524 school districts will go to court this week demanding more state education money. The school districts will attempt to establish that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","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=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18341,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions\/18341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}