{"id":19764,"date":"2018-05-13T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T16:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=19764"},"modified":"2018-05-21T19:53:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T19:53:39","slug":"war-on-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/?p=19764","title":{"rendered":"War on Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-19805\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blessed-are-the-man-boys-g4tcjna2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blessed-are-the-man-boys-g4tcjna2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blessed-are-the-man-boys-g4tcjna2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blessed-are-the-man-boys-g4tcjna2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blessed-are-the-man-boys-g4tcjna2.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OFpYj0E-yb4\" width=\"900\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What ever happened to letting &#8220;boys be boys?&#8221; Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy&#8217;s parents were summoned in for a conference.<\/p>\n<p>In short, boys in America&#8217;s schools are routinely punished for being active, competitive, and restless. In other words, boys can no longer be boys. Christina Hoff Sommers, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, explains how we can change this.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prageru.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prager University<\/a>&#8211;<\/span>All rights reserved<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-bottom-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F19764&print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F19764&print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff What ever happened to letting &#8220;boys be boys?&#8221; Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy&#8217;s parents were summoned in for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":19805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"wp-image-borders","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/blessed-are-the-man-boys-g4tcjna2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bgnN-58M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19806,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764\/revisions\/19806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchmanmedia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}