{"id":1285,"date":"2009-05-09T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2009-05-09T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:06:00","slug":"footloose-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/09\/footloose-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Footloose For Real&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom. This was all said by his principal who still apparently thinks the world&#8217;s flat, the Easter Bunny&#8217;s real, and that &#8220;Snow&#8221; is &#8220;God&#8217;s dandruff&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/footloose-edition-collection-pochette-avant.jpg\" alt=\"footloose-edition-collection-pochette-avant.jpg\" height=\"430\" width=\"294\" \/>(My Six Degrees of Bacon is burning)<\/p>\n<p>The handbook for the 84-student school <span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1241812949_2\"><\/span>says rock music &#8220;is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people&#8217;s hearts and minds&#8221;. Great, their principle&#8217;s Bobby Boucher&#8217;s Mom from <em>The Waterboy<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/kathy-bates-waterboy.jpg\" alt=\"kathy-bates-waterboy.jpg\" height=\"214\" width=\"295\" \/>(Foosball &amp; Rock music is the debil)<\/p>\n<p>Kenny Loggins has about as much &#8220;rebellion&#8221; in his music as an armless, legless blind boxer mixed with John Tesh. What they&#8217;re saying is, &#8220;If you decide to drive on his magical highway to the dangerzone, you&#8217;re ticketed&#8221;. What a horrible example of irrational intolerance to kids you&#8217;re supposed to teach. It&#8217;s so sad, so stupid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/footloose-t-shirt.jpg\" alt=\"footloose-t-shirt.jpg\" height=\"168\" width=\"298\" \/>(The B fell off, it was a fishing town)<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;music&#8221; is the devil, why do &#8220;they&#8221; get to sing during church? What they&#8217;re really saying is &#8220;Crappy religious music is fine, but if it&#8217;s produced, fun, or good, it&#8217;s off limits&#8221;. What about Creed, they were both? The part I do agree with is elevator muzak, Satan definitely had a hand in anything that sucks that hard, while you&#8217;re trapped in a small box for an extended period of time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Blackhawks game tonight&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With the series tied at 2-2, buckle up buttercups, it&#8217;s &#8220;on&#8221; like a light-switch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n<div id=\"bolge-2885813265\" class=\"bolge-after-content bolge-entity-placement\"><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"44284-1271501652\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" data-protocol=\"https\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom. This was all said by his principal who still apparently thinks the world&#8217;s flat, the Easter Bunny&#8217;s real, and that &#8220;Snow&#8221; is &#8220;God&#8217;s dandruff&#8221;&#8230; (My Six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-comedy-satire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}