{"id":3079,"date":"2010-01-26T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2010-01-26T20:59:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T01:59:02","slug":"repostsocal-school-district-bans-the-dictionary-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/26\/repostsocal-school-district-bans-the-dictionary-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::SoCal school district bans the dictionary Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually erase the tags of the post I repost but the tags were funny. Fuck, these small minded people are starting to irritate me.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cory Doctorow<br \/>\nPOSTED AT 5:06 AM January 26, 2010<br \/>\nAction \u2022 betraying our duty to the next generation \u2022 bluenose \u2022 book \u2022 censorship \u2022 ignorant \u2022 kids \u2022 prig \u2022 ridiculous \u2022 seriously banning the dictionary wtf \u2022 socal \u2022 stiffnecked \u2022 stupid \u2022 tightassed \u2022 what the hell is wrong with you<br \/>\nSoCal school district bans the dictionary<br \/>\nSouthern California&amp;apos;s Menifee Union school district has banned the Merriam Webster&amp;apos;s 10th edition from use in fourth and fifth grade classes, over this salacious definition of &#8220;oral sex&#8221;: &#8220;oral stimulation of the genitals&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&amp;apos;s hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we&amp;apos;ll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature,&#8221; district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/01\/26\/socal-school-distric.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">SoCal school district bans the dictionary Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually erase the tags of the post I repost but the tags were funny. Fuck, these small minded people are starting to irritate me. Cory Doctorow POSTED AT 5:06 AM January 26, 2010 Action \u2022 betraying our duty to the next generation \u2022 bluenose \u2022 book \u2022 censorship \u2022 ignorant \u2022 kids \u2022 prig &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/26\/repostsocal-school-district-bans-the-dictionary-boing-boing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::SoCal school district bans the dictionary Boing Boing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}