{"id":1153,"date":"2007-12-20T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2007-12-20T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:27:10","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas-is-a-good-science-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"All I Want for Christmas is a Good Science Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The science advocacy group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\">Florida Citizens for Science<\/a> has a creative way to get a pro-science message across to state policymakers (especially the Board of Education) during the run-up to a vote on the proposed new science standards&#151;which mention evolution for the first time in the state&#8217;s curriculum standards. It&#8217;s to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/xmas1.html\">send holiday greeting cards<\/a> urging Board of Education members to vote for standards that put evolution firmly in the state&#8217;s standards. Oh, and don&#8217;t worry if the cards get there after the 25th.<br \/>\nSince I&#8217;m not Christian, I have to pick a different route to make the same point. But that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science advocacy group Florida Citizens for Science has a creative way to get a pro-science message across to state policymakers (especially the Board of Education) during the run-up to a vote on the proposed new science standards&#151;which mention evolution for the first time in the state&#8217;s curriculum standards. It&#8217;s to send holiday greeting cards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-iB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}