{"id":134189,"date":"2026-05-21T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=134189"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:35:14","slug":"favorite-tweets-37602","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=134189","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tupper Lake NY just voted to increase the school tax levy by 4.9% &#8212; far in excess of the 2.21% state tax cap.<\/p>\n<p>They did it to fund the local school, which has a budget of $23M for ~730 students.<\/p>\n<p>I mean that&#8217;s ~$30,000\/yr per student for a school where only 37% of students are https:\/\/t.co\/XCJJsMXBVA<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; \ud835\ude77\ud835\ude92\ud835\ude8c\ud835\ude94\ud835\ude96\ud835\ude8a\ud835\ude97 (@shagbark_hick)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shagbark_hick\/status\/2057440075638604062\">May 21, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/shagbark_hick<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tupper Lake NY just voted to increase the school tax levy by 4.9% &#8212; far in excess of the 2.21% state tax cap. They did it to fund the local school, which has a budget of $23M for ~730 students. I mean that&#8217;s ~$30,000\/yr per student for a school where only 37% of students are &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=134189\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-134189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134190,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134189\/revisions\/134190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134189"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=134189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}