{"id":18618,"date":"2014-04-17T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18618"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T17:36:59","slug":"commmunity-college-professor-suspended-over-game-of-thrones-t-shirt-photo-posted-on-google-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18618","title":{"rendered":"Commmunity College professor suspended over &#8216;Game of Thrones&#8217; T-shirt Photo Posted On Google Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nj.com\/bergen\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/report_bergen_commmunity_college_professor_suspended_over_game_of_thrones_t-shirt.html'>Bergen Commmunity College professor suspended over &#039;Game of Thrones&#039; T-shirt.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Francis Schmidt [&#8230;] posted a picture of his young daughter doing yoga in a T-shirt with the new \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d season tagline in January, upon release of the trailer. The T-shirt reads, \u201cI will take what is mine in fire and blood,\u201d and Schmidt\u2019s cat lurks in the photo background.<\/p>\n<p>But one contact &#8212; a dean &#8212; who was notified automatically via Google that the picture had been posted apparently took it as a threat. In an email, Jim Miller, the college\u2019s executive director for human resources, told Schmidt to meet with him and two other administrators immediately in light of the \u201cthreatening email.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fail is too big! It burns! It burns! It has cold blue eyes and comes out of the North&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popehat.com\/2014\/04\/17\/fear-cuts-deeper-than-swords-bergen-community-college-freaks-out-over-game-of-thrones-t-shirt\/\">Popehat <\/a>has more on this, including links to a bunch of similarly ludicrous and infuriating overreactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bergen Commmunity College professor suspended over &#039;Game of Thrones&#039; T-shirt.. Francis Schmidt [&#8230;] posted a picture of his young daughter doing yoga in a T-shirt with the new \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d season tagline in January, upon release of the trailer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=18618\">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":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-speech-censorship-copyright-law-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18619,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18618\/revisions\/18619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}