{"id":2372,"date":"2015-09-11T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2015-09-11T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:04:34","slug":"cow-pies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=2372","title":{"rendered":"Cow pies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Isn\u2019t Diane Douglas just <em>adorable<\/em>?<\/h3>\n<h3>The lady has stepped in more fresh political cow pies than any AZ politician since Evan Mecham. She hasn\u2019t <em>just<\/em> stepped in them. She\u2019s stomped those pies so the splatter factor has been REALLY BIG. If you have forgotten or never knew about the infamous Gov. Mecham, see this \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B50SBxVKUvo\">Morley Safer<\/a> from the time of the covered wagons. (Notice how uncomfortable Safer is.)<\/h3>\n<h3>Douglas was elected superintendent of public instruction, but acts as though she were crowned Queen of Pedagogy. She therefore believes she is sovereign over all the education she surveys, a notion a court recently rejected.<\/h3>\n<h3>It seems unlikely that Ms Douglas will be satisfied with the court\u2019s decision and will appeal, thus spending more public money on lawyers who charge a few hundred quid an hour. As queen, she is something of a bulldog, and she seems determined to visit all the cow pies this state has to offer.<\/h3>\n<h3>And that, as they say in the land of double negatives, is not insignificant.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t Diane Douglas just adorable? The lady has stepped in more fresh political cow pies than any AZ politician since Evan Mecham. She hasn\u2019t just stepped in them. She\u2019s stomped those pies so the splatter factor has been REALLY BIG. If you have forgotten or never knew about the infamous Gov. Mecham, see this \u201c60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}