{"id":2996,"date":"2025-03-27T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:24:46","slug":"autocratic-educrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/03\/27\/autocratic-educrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Autocratic Educrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Educrats in Illinois <br>have a special need.  \u00a0<br>They&#8217;ve been afflicted by a curse  <br>that most of us can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re hooked on public education &#8211;  \u00a0<br>a failure &#8211; union made.  <br>They view the Homeschool Act a threat,  <br>it makes them all afraid.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Educrats in Illinois  <br>don&#8217;t like the competition.  <br>The kingdom that they oversee  \u00a0<br>is suffering attrition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:03162025 <br>therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Educrats in Illinois have a special need. \u00a0They&#8217;ve been afflicted by a curse that most of us can see. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2025\/03\/27\/autocratic-educrats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Autocratic Educrats<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-illinois-residents-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}