{"id":5731,"date":"2020-04-14T12:29:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2020-04-14T12:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T16:29:15","slug":"education-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/14\/education-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Education 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of McCains commercials that is fighting Obama&#8217;s stance on education. It is talking about how Obama&#8217;s only accomplishment in the education area is teaching kindergartners about sex. With the last article that we read on skewing stats, I want to know where they got that information. Though I agree that teaching kids that young about sex may be a little premature, I think that the sex education system needs to be overhauled and updated. This was my favorite ad because I felt like it really had no substance to it. I mentioned in the last blog post how I tend to prefer the funny ads, I thought this ad was almost laughable. It said nothing besides that Obama is bad. I understand that that tends to be the point of the opposition ad campaign, but I thought this one was more empty than a lot of the other ones I watched.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.livingroomcandidate.org\/commercials\/2008<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of McCains commercials that is fighting Obama&#8217;s stance on education. It is talking about how Obama&#8217;s only accomplishment in the education area is teaching kindergartners about sex. With the last article that we read on skewing stats, I want to know where they got that information. Though I agree that teaching kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4539,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}