{"id":205,"date":"2009-09-01T08:41:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T08:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=205"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:41:53","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T08:41:53","slug":"band_shirts_banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/09\/band_shirts_banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Band Shirts Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"evolve.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/evolve.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"249\" width=\"250\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A t-shirt created for students in Sedalia, Missouri, to promote the Smith-Cotton High School Tiger Pride Marching Band and &#8220;portray how brass instruments have evolved in music from the 1960s to modern day&#8221; has devolved into controversy due to the shirt&#8217;s allusion to evolution. Students were asked to turn the shirts back in after parents complained.<\/p>\n<p>Choice quotes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sedaliademocrat.com\/news\/0px-18740-span-font.html\">the story<\/a> published in the <i>Sedalia Democrat<\/i>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I was disappointed with the image on the shirt.&#8221; [Band parent Sherry] Melby said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think evolution should be associated with our school&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>High School junior Adam Tilley said he understood why the shirts were repossessed. &#8220;I can see where the parents are coming from,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Evolution has always been controversial.&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The issue has now attracted international attention and, as you might expect, some colorful reader comments.<\/p>\n<p>In the follow up, the <i>Sedalia Democrat<\/i> reports that &#8220;not only has the public outcry over the T-shirts been a distraction to the students who are working so hard on their marching and music, but the school district has to eat the cost of the shirts, a total of $700.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a proud former member of a high school music ensemble myself, I feel for the kid victims in this story. But not to worry, the world now wants these shirts. Biggest band fund raiser ever? <\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/darcyjamesargue\/status\/3677742127\">Darcy James Argue<\/a> for the link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A t-shirt created for students in Sedalia, Missouri, to promote the Smith-Cotton High School Tiger Pride Marching Band and &#8220;portray how brass instruments have evolved in music from the 1960s to modern day&#8221; has devolved into controversy due to the shirt&#8217;s allusion to evolution. Students were asked to turn the shirts back in after parents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}