{"id":16501,"date":"2010-06-24T20:44:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T00:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=16501"},"modified":"2010-06-24T20:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T00:44:43","slug":"letters-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/letters-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10jun\/richardsth.jpg' alt='image.jpg' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left' \/><strong>Reader disappointed with Lugnuts policy<\/strong> and Richards ready to graduate<!--more--><br \/>\nRecently, the Bath High School Band performed the National Anthem at a Lansing Lugnuts game. To the parents\/guardians\/caregivers astonishment&#8230;We had to pay to play.<br \/>\nWow! Many are soured by this.<br \/>\nI emailed the powers that be regarding this&#8230;I got your typical nonsensical response; &#8220;This is how it is done in the world of baseball.&#8221;<br \/>\nReally! Is this what American baseball is about&#8230;taking from students to pay their bills?<br \/>\nThe students of Bath High School are hardworking, academic-achieving young adults. Can the Lugnuts not find another way to extract monies from the public to make a profit?<br \/>\nWith the state of the economy being what it is, it saddens me that the environment surrounding baseball is so un-American and lascivious.<br \/>\nWhen did we start charging admission to honor our flag\/country? Our troops are out there paying the price for our freedom with their blood while their countrymen are being charged for the privilege to express their thanks.<br \/>\nPost Script: Cooley Law School expeditiously responded to my concerns. They stated, &#8220;We only purchased the naming rights.&#8221; At least they had the decency to deem my concerns legitimate.<br \/>\nC. J. Modolo<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/10jun\/richards.jpg' alt='image.jpg' class='ngg-singlepic ngg-left' \/>Christen Richards, a year 2000 graduate of St. Johns High School, is on the down hill side of her senior year.  She is attending Spartan College of Aeranautics and Technoligy in Tulsa, OK.  Spartan is a year round college.  They have four graduations a year.<br \/>\nChristen will be getting her degree in September.  She will then have one six week gen ed\u00a0class before she will be done.<br \/>\nAfter that her and her parents, Erick and Kaye Richards of St. Johns will be coming home.<br \/>\nChristen studied the field of avionitics.  That is the design, building, and repair of computers on jet airplanes.  She is now holding a 3.76 GPA.  She has received several awards in her studies while at Spartan.  In April she was chosen by Spartan to represent the school in the Six States Senators Ball held in Oklahoma.\u00a0\u00a0She has received several requests  from companies to come to work for them.  While at home her parents will hold an open house so that she can show her family and friends what she has accomplished.<br \/>\nErick J. Richards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader disappointed with Lugnuts policy and Richards ready to graduate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}