{"id":8873,"date":"2002-11-12T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2002-11-12T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/11\/12\/politically-correct-nursery-rhymes\/"},"modified":"2002-11-12T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2002-11-12T22:54:20","slug":"politically-correct-nursery-rhymes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/11\/politically-correct-nursery-rhymes\/","title":{"rendered":"Politically Correct Nursery Rhymes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>A father<br \/>\nhas claimed a school has taken political correctness too far after his daughter<br \/>\ncame home singing &#8220;Baa, baa, white sheep&#8221;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=#3333ff>Gary Stone, 41, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire said<br \/>\nfour-year-old Michelle said she had been taught it instead of the more<br \/>\nwell-known &#8220;Baa, Baa, black sheep.&#8221;<br \/><\/font>[<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_707473.html\">Full<br \/>\narticle<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><i>Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,<br \/>Kissed the girls and<br \/>\nwas filed with a sexual harassment suit;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,<br \/>Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;<br \/>All the<br \/>\ngovernment lawyers and all the government sense<br \/>Had OSHA come in and put up a<br \/>\nfence<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I know a senior citizen who swallowed a fly on the<br \/>\nendangered species list. I don&#8217;t know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps PETA<br \/>\nwill cry.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the<br \/>\ncandle-stick.<\/i><br \/>-Actually I couldn&#8217;t find a way to fix this sexual<br \/>\nstereotypical rhyme that subverts girls since it infers that males are more<br \/>\nathletic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father has claimed a school has taken political correctness too far after his daughter came home singing &#8220;Baa, baa, white sheep&#8221;. Gary Stone, 41, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire said four-year-old&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}