{"id":14018,"date":"2004-08-09T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-09T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/can-you-name-all-53-states\/"},"modified":"2004-08-09T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-09T12:59:00","slug":"can-you-name-all-53-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/can-you-name-all-53-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Name All 53 States?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If so, then you may be able to graduate from the California Alternative High School, which was recently <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;cid=573&amp;ncid=757&amp;e=2&amp;u=\/nm\/20040809\/od_nm\/odd_schools_dc\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;ordered to stop handing out phony diplomas&rdquo;<\/a> in California.  Apparently this chain of schools preyed on immigrants, charging &ldquo;its mainly Latino students $450 to $1,450 for a 10-week course based on a 54-page book that was riddled with errors, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.&rdquo;  Some of the worst errors include:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congress had two houses &ndash; the Senate for Democrats and the House for Republicans; that the U.S. flag had not been updated to reflect the addition of Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico to the &ldquo;original&rdquo; 50 states; that the federal &ldquo;administrative&rdquo; branch oversees the Treasury Department and that World War II occurred from 1938 to 1942.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope the students duped by this are located and informed of this fraud&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109205637207180951?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If so, then you may be able to graduate from the California Alternative High School, which was recently &ldquo;ordered to stop handing out phony diplomas&rdquo; in California. Apparently this chain of schools preyed on immigrants, charging &ldquo;its mainly Latino students $450 to $1,450 for a 10-week course based on a 54-page book that was riddled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/09\/can-you-name-all-53-states\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can You Name All 53 States?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}