{"id":307,"date":"2007-02-05T20:25:11","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T01:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=307"},"modified":"2007-02-05T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T01:25:38","slug":"state-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"State of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to Gov. Bredesen&#8217;s State of the State address tonight, then downloaded <a title=\"StateoftheState\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tennesseeanytime.org\/governor\/AdminCMSServlet?action=viewFile&#038;id=974\">the print version<\/a> so that I can better absorb the details.<\/p>\n<p>Education consumed the majority of the content, and I have to say that I&#8217;m fairly pleased with what I heard.  He does plan to ask for a 40-cents per pack increase in the cigarette tax, and that&#8217;s where most of the new education money will come from.<\/p>\n<p>The quandary: to continue my habit and support adequate education funding (thereby preserving my sanity and that of everyone around me), or to quit (thus avoiding a $146\/year tax increase)?  <em>NOTE: my question is purely rhetorical.  Leave me alone.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another of the Governor&#8217;s ambitious goals is for every 8th grader and every 10th grader to take the <a title=\"ACT.org\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.act.org\/\">ACT<\/a>.  He wants to add a fourth year of math to the high school graduation requirement, but did not specify a particular course.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll undoubtedly write more about his plans once I&#8217;ve slept, and again when his budget is introduced in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listened to Gov. Bredesen&#8217;s State of the State address tonight, then downloaded the print version so that I can better absorb the details. Education consumed the majority of the content, and I have to say that I&#8217;m fairly pleased &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=307\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}