{"id":776,"date":"2023-06-05T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=776"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:40:19","slug":"voters-please-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/05\/voters-please-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters &#8211; Please Note"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Unsheathed awareness &#8211; the greatest of threats \u00a0<br>to those who betray the oppressed.   <br>Learn of the nine thousand &#8211; be ye aware &#8211;\u00a0<br>whence cometh their recent despair!!  <br><em><strong>Invest &#8211; in Kids<\/strong><\/em> told to fold &#8211; <br>was killed with nine thousand enrolled &#8211; \u00a0<br>and ten thousands more waiting in line &#8211; <br>such injustice so cruelly unkind!     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:06012023)<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; selected sources on Invest in Kids scholarship program in Illinois: Patrick Keck &#8211; State Journal-Register May 27,2023 &#8211; Moral document &#8211; House sends $50.6B budget to governor&#8217;s desk &#8211; does not include Invest in Kids;       Gov. Pritzker children to Chicago&#8217;s Francis Parker, Senate President Harmon children to St. Ignatius, House Speaker Welch children to Timothy Christian &#8211; wsj.com &#8211; May 27,2023;       Nowicki, Meisel, Hancock &#8211; Capital News Illinois &#8211; May 24,2023 &#8211; $50.6B budget approved &#8211; Invest in Kids cut from budget;       empowerillinois.org &#8211; ph#800.616.7606;       Dylan Sharkey &#8211; illinoispolicy.org &#8211; May 26,2023;      Nytimes.com-can we stop fighting about charter schools-2\/2\/21;&nbsp;     Illinois report card at wirepoints;&nbsp;      blockclubchicago.org-Chicago is clamping down on charter growth-1\/13\/20 &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsheathed awareness &#8211; the greatest of threats \u00a0to those who betray the oppressed. Learn of the nine thousand &#8211; be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2023\/06\/05\/voters-please-note\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voters &#8211; Please Note<\/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-776","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\/776","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=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}