{"id":9234,"date":"2011-06-08T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:44:17","slug":"hey-look-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2011\/06\/08\/hey-look-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Look&#8230; Squirrel!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3018,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/07\\\/yeah-sure-were-underinvesting-in-education-but-hey-look-squirrel&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110906141302\\\/http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com:80\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/07\\\/yeah-sure-were-underinvesting-in-education-but-hey-look-squirrel&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 09:31:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:11:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:11:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3019,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/24\\\/the-olympia-work-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110813224358\\\/http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com:80\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/24\\\/the-olympia-work-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/slog\\\/archives\\\/2011\\\/05\\\/24\\\/the-olympia-work-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:11:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:11:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3020,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonea.org\\\/content\\\/docs\\\/comm\\\/statistics\\\/3684.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3021,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thestranger.com\\\/seattle\\\/it-gets-worse\\\/Content?oid=7664788&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220521001902\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.thestranger.com\\\/seattle\\\/it-gets-worse\\\/Content?oid=7664788&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 09:31:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:11:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 11:11:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2011\/06\/07\/yeah-sure-were-underinvesting-in-education-but-hey-look-squirrel\" title=\"Yeah, Sure, We're Underinvesting in Education, but Hey Look... Squirrel! | Slog\">Yeah, Sure, We&#8217;re Underinvesting in Education, but Hey Look&#8230; Squirrel! | Slog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Look&#8230; squirrel!<\/p>\n<p>  That&#8217;s pretty much the level of discourse we&#8217;ve been having over education funding in Washington state, the kind that&#8217;s designed to keep our eyes off the ball by assuming that voters have an attention span shorter than that of the average dog. <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/slog\/archives\/2011\/05\/24\/the-olympia-work-ethic-and-the-spirit-of-capitalism\" title=\"Slog: The Olympia Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism\">Another $1.4 billion slashed from K-12 education<\/a>, about $1,400 per student? <strong>Squirrel<\/strong>! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonea.org\/content\/docs\/comm\/statistics\/3684.pdf\" title=\"Washington EA (.pdf download)\">3,700 fewer teachers<\/a> funded in WA&#8217;s public schools? <strong>Squirrel<\/strong>! A more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/it-gets-worse\/Content?oid=7664788\" title=\"Slog: It Gets Worse\">50 percent reduction in higher education spending<\/a> over the past two budgets? <strong>Squirrel<\/strong>!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s pretty much the level of discourse we&#8217;ve been having over education funding in Washington state, the kind that&#8217;s designed to keep our eyes off the ball by assuming that voters have an attention span shorter than that of the average dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39,14,172],"class_list":["post-9234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links","tag-politics","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}