{"id":8851,"date":"2015-06-05T16:11:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T00:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2015-06-05T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T00:11:31","slug":"north-carolina-teacher-omar-currie-reads-his-class-gay-fable-after-third-grader-is-bullied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=8851","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Teacher Omar Currie Reads His Class Gay Fable After Third-Grader Is Bullied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/18\/omar-currie-gay-fable_n_7306388.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/2964772\/thumbs\/s-OMAR-CURRIE1-large300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" alt=\"Teacher Omar Currie\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Omar Currie, 25, teaches third grade at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School in Efland, North Carolina. Three weeks ago, Currie overheard some of his students calling one of their male classmates &#8220;gay&#8221; and &#8220;a woman.&#8221; Instead of sending the bullies to the principal&#8217;s office, Currie took a different approach: He read his class King &amp; King, a children&#8217;s fable by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland that features a same-sex romance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/05\/18\/omar-currie-gay-fable_n_7306388.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Omar Currie, 25, teaches third grade at Efland-Cheeks Elementary School in Efland, North Carolina. Three weeks ago, Currie overheard some of his students calling one of their male classmates &#8220;gay&#8221; and &#8220;a woman.&#8221; Instead of sending the bullies to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=8851\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,178],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-queer","tag-bullying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}