{"id":2755,"date":"2003-01-31T11:24:35","date_gmt":"2003-01-31T18:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/01\/france-conquered-by-band-geeks\/"},"modified":"2003-01-31T11:24:35","modified_gmt":"2003-01-31T18:24:35","slug":"france-conquered-by-band-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/31\/france-conquered-by-band-geeks\/","title":{"rendered":"France conquered by band geeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis just in from CNS: <a title=\"France Surrenders to Texas High School -- 01\/31\/2003\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=Commentaryarchive200301COM20030131c.html\">France Surrenders to Texas High School<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Paris (CNSNews.com) &#8211; What began as a six-day chaperoned music tour by a group of suburban Houston teenagers ended in an epic conquest in the pre-dawn hours of Friday morning as French military and government officials offered their unconditional surrender to students of the Aldine, Texas Eisenhower High School Music Department.<\/p>\n<p>Accepting the surrender, Eisenhower High School Band and Choral Director Gary Baumer praised the French for avoiding further bloodshed and vowed an immediate postwar rebuilding effort. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope to achieve national recovery by prom,&#8221; said Baumer. &#8220;The seniors have voted for the theme &#8220;Springtime in Paris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a goodwill gesture, Baumer said the victorious students would soon begin releasing most of the 400,000 French prisoners of war they had captured during the brutal three-day campaign. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want the prisoners reunited with their families,&#8221; said Justin Gonzales, a junior tenor in the Eisenhower Glee Chorus. &#8220;Besides, you can&#8217;t even begin to imagine the smell.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eisenhower High is planning a bake sale and car wash to send the football team to Germany, but that&#8217;s not really a fair fight.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/64.247.33.2\/~icebergw\/\">Captain Quick<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in from CNS: France Surrenders to Texas High School Paris (CNSNews.com) &#8211; What began as a six-day chaperoned music tour by a group of suburban Houston teenagers ended in an epic conquest in the pre-dawn hours of Friday morning as French military and government officials offered their unconditional surrender to students of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/31\/france-conquered-by-band-geeks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;France conquered by band geeks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}