{"id":581,"date":"2008-04-07T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=581"},"modified":"2008-04-07T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:03:40","slug":"a-school-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/a-school-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"A School Bus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Off to school they go?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20080407\/capt.58bad0cf7b334785bf4eb77bfb57fb47.polygamist_retreat_ny107.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Part of the caption over at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/nphotos\/San-Angelo2C-Texas-Fundamentalist-Church-of-Jesus-Christ-of-Later-Day-Saints\/photo\/\/080407\/480\/58bad0cf7b334785bf4eb77bfb57fb47\/\/s:\/ap\/20080407\/ap_on_re_us\/polygamist_retreat_41;_ylt=ApJkfXW6Vm.4ooITO.UjDTVH2ocA\">Yahoo! News Photos<\/a>: <\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>Law enforcement officials escort members of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints onto a school bus in Eldorado, Texas, Sunday, April 6, 2008. Authorities took 220 women and children from the compound.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to me to see that school bus there.<\/p>\n<p>At least it wasn&#8217;t Waco. (Who will make the Clinton-Bush comparison on that one?)<\/p>\n<p>(<i>Latter<\/i>, by the way.)<\/p>\n<p>Though I disagree with Mormons (original or revised or fundamentalist versions) on plenty of issues, I am blessed to see the beautifully-dressed, modestly-dressed, femininely-dressed appearance of those girls and women. Frankly, they remind me of the &#8220;conservative&#8221; branches of &#8220;my people&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\">Anabaptists<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, those dresses look like the kind of wife and daughter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptistbooks.com\/services\/sewing\/\">sew<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Off to school they go? Part of the caption over at Yahoo! News Photos: Law enforcement officials escort members of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints onto a school bus in Eldorado, Texas, Sunday, April 6, 2008. Authorities took 220 women and children from the compound. It&#8217;s interesting to me to &#8230; <a title=\"A School Bus?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/a-school-bus\/\" aria-label=\"More on A School Bus?\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-9n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}