{"id":38655,"date":"2013-09-05T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/the-midnight-ride-of-rush-revere.html"},"modified":"2013-09-05T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:27:12","slug":"the-midnight-ride-of-rush-revere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/the-midnight-ride-of-rush-revere.html","title":{"rendered":"The Midnight Ride of Rush Revere"},"content":{"rendered":"
Really. \u00a0Rush Limbaugh is publishing a US History book for young folk, to \u201cteach what is rarely being taught in schools today" (but without, he insists, an "agenda").<\/p>\n

That the book is titled Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans<\/i> does not fill me with hope, right alongside the anachronistic picture of narrator, time-tossed middle school teacher "Rush Revere," on the cover.<\/div>\n

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Rush fixes American history in new No. 1 book<\/a><\/p>\n

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Really. \u00a0Rush Limbaugh is publishing a US History book for young folk, to \u201cteach what is rarely being taught in schools today" (but without, he insists, an "agenda"). That the book is titled Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims: Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans does not fill me with hope, right alongside the anachronistic picture … Continue reading “The Midnight Ride of Rush Revere”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28641,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/living-color-old-bw-photos-and-good-colorization.html","url_meta":{"origin":38655,"position":0},"title":"Living color — old B&W photos and (good) colorization","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jul-12 11:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have a tremendous amount of respect for good black-and-white photography. \u00a0The interplay of light and shadow, the contrast of forms ... b&w is truly special.That said, I think there is a role for well-crafted colorization of subjects that are only available in b&w. \u00a0Like an iconic figure below.I'm reminded\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7462,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/01\/what_we_have_he.html","url_meta":{"origin":38655,"position":1},"title":"What we have here is a failure to communicate","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Mar-05 5:49am","format":false,"excerpt":"Got home last night from my last official Search Committee meeting (huzzah!) to find Margie cursing softly and fooling around with the cable modem ... 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