{"id":60,"date":"2021-09-29T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/?p=60"},"modified":"2021-09-29T18:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T23:29:30","slug":"news-comment-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/2021\/09\/29\/news-comment-5\/","title":{"rendered":"News Comment #5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this week\u2019s News Comment I read \u201cNo Veggies, No Buns, Few Forks: Schools Scramble to Feed Students Amid Shortages\u201d by Madeline Ngo from <em>The New York Times. <\/em>This article discusses the problem of food shortages in schools that several districts are facing. The problem is stemming from factors created by the pandemic. Things such as lack of distributors, not enough truck drivers, and the prices of food going up. I thought this was a really good read and that the writer did a nice job.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even trying to read it through a critical lens was a little hard because there weren\u2019t any obvious problems and I was also really interested in the topic. Ngo went into great detail and was very thorough when using quotes and other sources to explain the situation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn\u2019t thought about how schools would be impacted by this kind of thing. The fact that they are resorting to foods with higher levels of sodium is what initially caught my attention considering when I went through school there was a huge healthy kid initiative enforced through most public schools.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-the-new-york-times wp-block-embed-the-new-york-times\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"No Veggies, No Buns, Few Forks: Schools Scramble to Feed Students Amid Shortages\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2021%2F09%2F27%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fschools-labor-supply-shortages.html#?secret=3i0zy7ICKX\" data-secret=\"3i0zy7ICKX\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week\u2019s News Comment I read \u201cNo Veggies, No Buns, Few Forks: Schools Scramble to Feed Students Amid Shortages\u201d by Madeline Ngo from The New York Times. This article discusses the problem of food shortages in schools that several districts are facing. The problem is stemming from factors created by the pandemic. Things such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/ero001\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}