{"id":1277,"date":"2010-05-13T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:00:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T21:00:37","slug":"for-gods-sake-what-is-wrong-with-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1277","title":{"rendered":"For god&#8217;s sake &#8211; what is WRONG with Arizona?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First it becomes the state with the most backwards and xenophobic immigration policy in the Union, and now the schools will not be permitted to teach ethnic studies because it promotes an atmosphere of resentment and increases the possibility of a violent takeover &#8211; I know, WTF indeed.<\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to be held in Arizona and, given the high percentage of Latin and Hispanic players that play professional baseball, it seems like <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/dailypitch\/post\/2010\/05\/latino-group-issues-strong-response-to-bud-seligs-refusal-to-buck-arizona-law\/1\">there may be a problem<\/a>. \u00a0A number of players have thrown their support behind <a href=\"http:\/\/movethegame.org\/\">MoveTheGame.org<\/a>, which is an offshoot of MoveOn. \u00a0Commissioner Selig has said that he doesn&#8217;t expect the game to be moved, but he&#8217;s just biding his time while waiting to see which way the winds of public opinion blow. \u00a0The man is a coward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisweekinblackness.com\/2010\/05\/13\/ethnic-studies-angers-the-ethnics-says-arizona\/\">Elon James does an excellent (and humorous) job of helping us put some of Arizona&#8217;s policies in perspective<\/a>. \u00a0The thing is, I&#8217;ve been to Arizona. \u00a0It seems like a nice place. \u00a0Can anyone tell me how it got so fucked up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First it becomes the state with the most backwards and xenophobic immigration policy in the Union, and now the schools will not be permitted to teach ethnic studies because it promotes an atmosphere of resentment and increases the possibility of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1277\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[111],"tags":[1065,47,104,1064,1063],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}