{"id":4056,"date":"2011-04-12T08:26:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T12:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2011-04-12T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:21:40","slug":"morning-read-student-unrest-in-beekmantown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/04\/12\/morning-read-student-unrest-in-beekmantown\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Student unrest in&#8230;Beekmantown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not unrest actually.\u00a0 This ain&#8217;t Cairo.\u00a0 But kids in Beekmantown did express their grave concern about proposed budget cuts.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s sophomore Sarah Thompson, quoted in this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x609796136\/Beekmantown-students-stage-sit-in-over-budget\">Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My friends and I were talking about the budget cuts during lunch, and  we didn&#8217;t like how our teachers were being cut,&#8221; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am  upset personally about the music program. Music is my life, and if you  are closing the music program, you might as well just say die to the  children&#8217;s dreams, because getting rid of that is getting rid of  dreams.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the newspaper, about 30 positions are likely to be cut, along with athletic programs and student activities.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow during the 8 O&#8217;clock Hour, David Sommerstein and I will both report on the backlash that&#8217;s brewing across the North Country to the region&#8217;s deep education cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not unrest actually.\u00a0 This ain&#8217;t Cairo.\u00a0 But kids in Beekmantown did express their grave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}