{"id":1172,"date":"2011-09-16T05:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2011-09-16T05:07:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T12:07:52","slug":"blue-ribbon-committee-to-address-failed-swigert-mcauliffe-nicknames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=1172","title":{"rendered":"Blue Ribbon Committee to Address Failed Swigert-McAuliffe Nicknames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[With Stapleton kids returning to school, Denver Public Schools, Forest City and Mayor Hancock announced a jointly formed committee.  The purpose of the committee is to come up with even more confusing nicknames for the new Stapleton school. DPS Superintendent Tara Seery was quoted as saying, \"The more confusing the better. These people have it better than anyone else within the district, and yet they still have the ability to gripe more than anyone else.\"  The Superintendent\u2019s sentiments were supported by the release of a recent study showing that while Stapleton reflects only one-twenty-sixth of DPS\u2019 population, it  receives one-fifth of the resources and provides 98% of the complaints. Seery first barbed Stapleton by determining the official name of the school to be Swigert-McAuliffe International School, a name that, rightly so, nobody uses. Consequently, people started making up nicknames, such as SMIS, Swig-Mac and the easy and all-purpose, Stapleton III. None of these nicknames, however, has become an obvious front runner.<!--more-->\nSeizing the opportunity before one name gels, Seery roped in the clarity communications team from Forest City and the new mayor to create the new committee, whose sole purpose will be to come up with not-quite-catch-on-able names on a monthly basis and have them released through the Front Porch and StapletonMoms.com. Seery was overheard confiding in Mayor Hancock, &#8220;Even if this new \u2018naming committee\u2019 fails, I&#8217;ve still screwed these Stapleton whiners by giving them a Principal whose last name is difficult to pronounce.\u201d\nThe Stapletonion realizes two things: 1)  No one is ever going to consistently refer to the school by its complete name and 2) We need to find a name that we all use instead of some using SMIS, others using Stapleton 3, and others using Swigert. The Stapletonion would like to hear your nicknames for the new school, and we will use your entries in the next poll. If your entry makes the poll, you will receive a free Stapletonion tee shirt. 100% cotton, 90% cool. Lets help this school out!\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-13","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}