{"id":22,"date":"2011-06-20T18:44:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2021-12-30T20:04:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T20:04:44","slug":"titles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"Chain Gang Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chain_gang_elementary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chain_gang_elementary-755x1024.jpg\" alt=\"chain_gang_elementary\" width=\"755\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chain_gang_elementary-755x1024.jpg 755w, https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/chain_gang_elementary-221x300.jpg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Novel by Jonathan Grant<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ADULT FICTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>ISBN<\/strong>: <strong>978-0-9-834921-0-8<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Paperback Suggested Retail: $15.00<br \/>\neBook: $4.99<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a\u00a0&#8220;school of excellence.\u201d When redistricting sends scores of minority students to Malliford, iron-willed Principal Estelle Rutherford declares war on kids to raise test scores and save her reputation. Dissident parents revolt, electing Richard to head the Parent-Teacher Organization, and tensions\u00a0explode. Welcome to Chain Gang Elementary, home to vast right-wing conspiracies, 3rd-grade gangsters, and bake sale embezzlers\u2013where toxic childhood secrets boil over, reformers go stark raving mad, and culture wars escalate into armed conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Novel by Jonathan Grant ADULT FICTION ISBN: 978-0-9-834921-0-8 Paperback Suggested Retail: $15.00 eBook: $4.99 After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a\u00a0&#8220;school of excellence.\u201d When redistricting sends scores of minority students to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thornbriarpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}