{"id":838,"date":"2014-06-01T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/01\/not-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees-school\/"},"modified":"2014-06-01T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:45:00","slug":"not-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/01\/not-seeing-the-forest-for-the-trees-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Not seeing the forest for the trees &#8211; school nutrition food fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/wapo.st\/1hoZGXN'>Not seeing the forest for the trees &#8211; school nutrition food fight<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>How can any rational person not step back and scratch their head? Michelle Obama is up against the House GOP who want to grant waivers to schools that show the new school food regulations are too expensive and onerous. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe last thing we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids\u2019 health,\u201d Michelle Obama said Tuesday. \u201cNow is not the time to roll back everything we have worked for.\u201d \u00a0As it stands now, it isn\u2019t likely that there will be any massive rollback in the new regulations. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>(from the curator) In our house, if our kids don&rsquo;t eat their vegetables, whole grains, or better proteins &#8211; they don&rsquo;t get an option, nor dessert, that reinforces bad habits. \u00a0Where we may differ, we focus on serving a variety of healthy, tasty and quality meals that appeal to us all. It&rsquo;s more than possible, and there are many ways to learn how. \u00a0Instead of empowering bad behavior and entitlement by discussing how much good food is thrown in the trash everyday at schools because &ldquo;kids don&rsquo;t like eating veggies&rdquo;, how about focusing on accountability and appreciation for what fuels our well-being. That goes equally for our kids and politicians alike.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/1hoZGXN\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/03\/11\/dining\/11lady_650.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not seeing the forest for the trees &#8211; school nutrition food fight How can any rational person not step back and scratch their head? Michelle Obama is up against the House GOP who want to grant waivers to schools that show the new school food regulations are too expensive and onerous. \u00a0 \u201cThe last thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-school-lunch","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronniederhelman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}