{"id":2118,"date":"2006-10-19T01:58:36","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T05:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/candidate_stude\/"},"modified":"2006-10-19T01:58:36","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T05:58:36","slug":"candidate_stude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/candidate_stude\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate: Students Should Use Textbooks To Stop Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican running for Oklahoma state educational superintendent has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koco.com\/news\/10105982\/detail.html\">a nifty school safety platform<\/a>: arm students with old textbooks to protect them against school shootings.  [Video included.]<br \/>\nYes, it really is that stupid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Crozier, a Union City Republican going against incumbent Democrat Sandy Garrett, said he believes old textbooks could be used to stop bullets shot from weapons wielded by school intruders.<br \/>\nIf elected, he said he would put thick used textbooks under every desk for students to use in self-defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only the Secret Service had thought of this idea years ago.  We should have had the president riding around in a bookmobile for protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/candidate_stude\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Candidate: Students Should Use Textbooks To Stop Bullets\"><p>A Republican running for Oklahoma state educational superintendent has a nifty school safety platform: arm students with old textbooks to protect them against school shootings. [Video included.] Yes, it really is that stupid: Bill Crozier, a Union City Republican going against incumbent Democrat Sandy Garrett, said he believes old textbooks could be used to stop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}