{"id":42,"date":"2005-05-08T09:55:35","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/05\/08\/texas-democrats-pass-bill-to-control-aids-herpes-teenage-pregnancy-and-high-school-dropouts-by-banning-booty-shaking-cheer-routines\/"},"modified":"2005-05-08T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2005-05-08T17:55:35","slug":"texas-democrats-pass-bill-to-control-aids-herpes-teenage-pregnancy-and-high-school-dropouts-by-banning-booty-shaking-cheer-routines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/05\/texas-democrats-pass-bill-to-control-aids-herpes-teenage-pregnancy-and-high-school-dropouts-by-banning-booty-shaking-cheer-routines\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas democrats pass bill to control AIDS, herpes, teenage pregnancy, and high school dropouts by banning booty-shaking cheer routines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas House approved a bill last week that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc5i.com\/education\/4447873\/detail.html\">ban &#8220;sexually suggestive&#8221; routines by school cheerleaders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Al Edwards of Houston, who filed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitol.state.tx.us\/tlo\/79R\/billtext\/HB01476I.HTM\">legislation<\/a>, argued that lascivious exhibitions are a distraction for high school students that result in pregnancies, high school dropouts, contraction of AIDS and herpes and &#8220;cutting off their youthful life at an early age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Besides solving key health, social, and education problems, the legislation banning bump-and-grind cheerleading also gives the state education commissioner the right to reduce funding to school districts that do not comply, yet another nifty way to reduce funding for public education&#8230;brought to you by Democrats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas House approved a bill last week that would ban &#8220;sexually suggestive&#8221; routines by school cheerleaders. Democratic Rep. Al Edwards of Houston, who filed the legislation, argued that lascivious exhibitions are a distraction for high school students that result in pregnancies, high school dropouts, contraction of AIDS and herpes and &#8220;cutting off their youthful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}