{"id":560122,"date":"2022-03-17T08:57:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=237116"},"modified":"2022-03-17T08:57:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T08:57:03","slug":"the-culture-wars-and-the-2022-congressional-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/17\/the-culture-wars-and-the-2022-congressional-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Culture Wars and the 2022 Congressional Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Price, the assistant principal at a Gary Road Elementary School in Byram (MS), near Jackson, was recently fired for reading I Need a New Butt, by Dawn McMillan and illustrated by Ross Kinnard.\u00a0 He read the story to some 200 second graders via a Zoom hook-up.\u00a0 Price, whose been teaching for two decades, called  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/17\/the-culture-wars-and-the-2022-congressional-elections\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/17\/the-culture-wars-and-the-2022-congressional-elections\/\">The Culture Wars and the 2022 Congressional Elections<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/03\/17\/the-culture-wars-and-the-2022-congressional-elections\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toby Price, the assistant principal at a Gary Road Elementary School in Byram (MS), near Jackson, was recently fired for reading I Need a New Butt, by Dawn McMillan and illustrated by Ross Kinnard.\u00a0 He read the story to some 200 second graders via a Zo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560123,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560122\/revisions\/560123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}