{"id":3133,"date":"2008-02-24T14:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T19:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/02\/24\/our-gang\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T14:31:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T19:31:54","slug":"our-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/02\/our-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">South Albany High is in the headlines this morning after the principal disciplined a student who refused to take off a crucifix. The school&#8217;s principal, according to this report in this morning&#8217;s Albany Democrat Herald, suspected the cross was a gang symbol. The student insisted it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Salazar is very clear: Her son is not a gang member and she gave him a crucifix to wear out of love.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Chris Equinoa is equally clear: Religious items are not banned, but he reserves the right to ask a student to remove, or cover up, any item he feels could indicate gang affiliation &#8212; even a crucifix. <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oregonlive.com\/nwheadlines\/2008\/02\/post_3.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/article.png\" border=\"0\" height=\"26\" width=\"76\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well the Catholic Church just isn&#8217;t a very good as a gang. Snitches like Judas were treated quiet compassionately by Jesus. No requirement for membership to kill someone, though we are asked to die to self. We don&#8217;t have the Bloods, but we do have the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity. I do wonder if this principal would consider the Ichthys an early gang symbol?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Albany High is in the headlines this morning after the principal disciplined a student who refused to take off a crucifix. The school&#8217;s principal, according to this report in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}