{"id":626,"date":"2016-11-13T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=626"},"modified":"2016-11-13T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:37:55","slug":"i-is-for-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"I is for &#8230; huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s political correctness and then there&#8217;s silliness.\u00a0Anya&#8217;s preschool newsletter said they would be introducing the letters &#8220;H&#8221; for harvest and &#8220;I&#8221; for Native Americans in the first half of November. Wait, &#8220;I&#8221; for\u00a0<strong>N<\/strong>ative\u00a0<strong>A<\/strong>mericans? Took me a second to realize that they mean Indians. To some extent, I get removing controversial terms &#8211; especially at a young age where you just don&#8217;t want to get into the discussion around\u00a0<em>why<\/em> some people find whatever-it-is to be offensive. But why wouldn&#8217;t they pick another word for the letter?! Ice, Ink, Inside, Incredible, Imagine, Infinite, Island &#8230; thousands of words that start with &#8216;i&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s political correctness and then there&#8217;s silliness.\u00a0Anya&#8217;s preschool newsletter said they would be introducing the letters &#8220;H&#8221; for harvest and &#8220;I&#8221; for Native Americans in the first half of November. Wait, &#8220;I&#8221; for\u00a0Native\u00a0Americans? Took me a second to realize that they mean Indians. To some extent, I get removing controversial terms &#8211; especially at a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}