{"id":6144,"date":"2010-05-19T19:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T02:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6144"},"modified":"2010-05-19T19:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T02:27:13","slug":"the-latest-in-presidential-assassination-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/05\/19\/the-latest-in-presidential-assassination-news\/","title":{"rendered":"the latest in presidential assassination news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Freaking Alabama!<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/spotnews\/2010\/05\/jefferson_county_geometry_teac.html\">Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example<\/a> when he used as\u00c2\u00adsassinating President Bar\u00c2\u00adack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geome\u00c2\u00adtry students.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8 [&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><span><span>A Corner High geometry teacher picked the wrong example, President Barack Obama, to use in a lesson on angles. The lesson resulted in a Secret Service investigation. (AP) <\/span><\/span><\/span>Sexton said he generally doesn&#8217;t discuss threat cases, but confirmed his of\u00c2\u00adfice investigated the inci\u00c2\u00addent. No federal charges followed the probe.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<\/p>\n<p>The teacher was appar\u00c2\u00adently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was talking about angles and said, &#8216;If you&#8217;re in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,&#8217; &#8221; said Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry class.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<\/p>\n<p>This might be boorish and completely inappropriate\u00c2\u00a0to ask, but&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat was the lesson?\u00c2\u00a0 <em>If you are in this building&#8230; you need to take this angle&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/em>Is it a crowded room with a bunch of obstructions, such that the angle would have to be one particular angle?\u00c2\u00a0 Is there a specific body part that&#8217;s being aimed at?\u00c2\u00a0 This story is &#8220;Useless Without Pictures&#8221;.<br \/>\nAnd, yes, the teacher needs some &#8220;Time off&#8221; without pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freaking Alabama! Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used as\u00c2\u00adsassinating President Bar\u00c2\u00adack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geome\u00c2\u00adtry students.\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8 [&#8230;] A Corner High geometry teacher picked the wrong example, President Barack Obama, to use in a lesson on angles. The lesson resulted in a Secret Service investigation. (AP) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6144\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}