{"id":25055,"date":"2011-04-21T17:54:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/04\/21\/tennessees-monkey-bill-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:54:32","slug":"tennessees-monkey-bill-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/tennessees-monkey-bill-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee&#8217;s Monkey Bill On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Tennessee&#8217;s Senate Bill 893 &#8212; nicknamed, along with its counterpart House Bill 368, the &#8220;monkey bill&#8221; &#8212; is on hold, &#8220;almost certainly postponing any action until next year,&#8221; according to the Knoxville News Sentinel&#8217;s Humphrey on the Hill blog (April 21, 2011). Its sponsor, Bo Watson (R-District 11), assigned the bill to the general subcommittee of the Senate Education Committee on April 20, 2011, which was the last scheduled meeting of the committee; he told the blog, &#8220;Practically speaking, I probably am not going to be able to run the bill this year,&#8221; although it is still possible that the committee might have a further meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/04\/tennessees-monkey-bill-hold-006631\"><br \/>\nRead the rest here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee&#8217;s Senate Bill 893 &#8212; nicknamed, along with its counterpart House Bill 368, the &#8220;monkey bill&#8221; &#8212; is on hold, &#8220;almost certainly postponing any action until next year,&#8221; according to the Knoxville News Sentinel&#8217;s Humphrey on the Hill blog (April 21, 2011). Its sponsor, Bo Watson (R-District 11), assigned the bill to the general subcommittee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/tennessees-monkey-bill-on-hold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tennessee&#8217;s Monkey Bill On Hold<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6w7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}