{"id":2616,"date":"2011-03-06T22:14:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T03:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2013-09-01T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:12:54","slug":"its-funny-because-its-not-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/2616","title":{"rendered":"It’s Funny Because It’s Not Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently saw a particularly poignant piece of graffito etched on a friend’s Facebook wall:<\/p>\n

A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, “Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And while this might easily refer to any number of anti-labor sentiments, it seems most appropriate as a reaction to the current – inexplicable – War on Teachers that has been raging in the media lately. <\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen last Thursday’s Daily Show<\/em><\/a>, you really need to go watch it. In a brilliant piece at the top of the show, Jon Stewart demonstrates the hypocrisy of the right-wing talking heads when talking about teachers. Later, he interviews education truth-teller<\/a> Diane Ravitch, who lays out the rest of the argument. <\/p>\n

If you want to understand the conversations surrounding education reform, then – as Tom Tomorrow says in this week’s strip<\/a> – that’s all you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently saw a particularly poignant piece of graffito etched on a friend’s Facebook wall: A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,89,16,12,41,9,20,36,8,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-ed-policy","category-education","category-humor","category-information-literacy","category-politics","category-social-justice","category-television","category-video","category-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4503,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/4503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}