{"id":607,"date":"2005-03-18T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/party-with-the-air-force\/"},"modified":"2005-03-18T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T20:12:40","slug":"party-with-the-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/party-with-the-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Party with the Air Force!"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Del Norte Wins ‘Perfect Prom’<\/a><\/p>\n

Del Norte students thought they were attending a regular St. Patrick’s Day assembly Thursday but were surprised when representatives from the Air Force<\/big> gave them $20,000 to put on the “Perfect Prom.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Del Norte junior Erin Whitaker’s entry was randomly<\/b> chosen out of 80,000 for the Air Force’s annual “Perfect Prom Sweepstakes.”<\/p>\n

“She was just randomly<\/b> picked,” said Air Force Tech. Sgt. Dominic Bartholomeo, who presented the check.<\/p>\n

The contest aims to get high school students around the country to think about participating in alcohol-free proms. It is sponsored by the Air Force<\/b> and StudentAware, a group that promotes safe proms. …<\/p>\n

The entire grand prize package totaled more than $70,000<\/b>, Bartholomeo said.<\/p>\n

“I’m very proud of our school,” said Del Norte principal Rebecca Almeter. “We found out about (the award) two weeks ago, but we wanted to surprise the students.”<\/p>\n

Whitaker said she entered the sweepstakes because she wants her school to have a safe and sober prom. But will other students keep to that goal?<\/p>\n

“We’ve got some OK ones. We’ve got some crazy ones, too,” said a smiling Whitaker. “But we’ll be OK.”<\/p>\n

$70,000 should buy a pretty decent prom — or a year’s wages for 70 workers in prom dress factories overseas. It’ll really go far if you’re not buying booze or drugs (bring your own).<\/p>\n

Let me ask all my Republican readers something. Jim, what do you think of THE AIR FORCE doing this?<\/p>\n

Seriously, everybody, as noble a purpose as this is, WHY is the Air Force<\/b> involved. Is this recruitment in disguise? Are the only hand-outs acceptable to the Radical Right going to and coming from the military? mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: Del Norte Wins ‘Perfect Prom’ Del Norte students thought they were attending a regular St. Patrick’s Day assembly Thursday but were surprised when representatives from the Air Force gave them $20,000 to put on the “Perfect Prom.” Del Norte junior Erin Whitaker’s entry was randomly chosen out of 80,000 for the Air Force’s annual … Continue reading Party with the Air Force!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}