{"id":532,"date":"2010-02-01T12:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:26:59","slug":"german-family-granted-asylum-in-us-for-homeschooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/01\/german-family-granted-asylum-in-us-for-homeschooling\/","title":{"rendered":"German family granted asylum in US &#8230; for Homeschooling."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! The statists running the German government think it&#8217;s a bad thing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/26\/AR2010012603298.html\">you to educate your children<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children was granted political asylum Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge, according to the legal group that represented them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember Animal Farm. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Napoleon_(Animal_Farm)\">Comrade Napoleon<\/a> said he&#8217;d take care of educating the dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Or if fiction&#8217;s not your thing, remember Ceau?escu&#8217;s government in Romania and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4629589.stm\">its orphans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Kudus: <a href=\"http:\/\/bigjournalism.com\/wthuston\/2010\/02\/01\/homeschooling-german-family-awarded-political-asylum-in-u-s-where-is-u-s-media\/\">Big Journalism<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! The statists running the German government think it&#8217;s a bad thing for you to educate your children. A German couple who fled to Tennessee so they could homeschool their children was granted political asylum Tuesday by a U.S. immigration judge, according to the legal group that represented them. Remember Animal Farm. Comrade Napoleon said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[888,748,749,672],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-education","tag-germany","tag-home-schooling","tag-policy-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-8A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}