{"id":483,"date":"2006-03-14T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=483"},"modified":"2006-03-14T09:06:13","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T13:06:13","slug":"where-creationist-battles-are-fought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Where creationist battles are fought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting little piece on <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/dailykos\/index?m=3068\">Daily Kos<\/a> today about the tendency of <del>intelligent design<\/del> creationists to target small towns&#151;and the fiscal pain of the towns who agree to carry the banner for creationists. This has a long history, going back to John Scopes&#8217; test of Tennessee&#8217;s anti-evolution law in Dayton, Tennessee, as a town boosterish sort of thing (See Edward Larson&#8217;s <cite>Summer for the Goods<\/cite> for what I gather is now the standard history of that trial). But what happens if the game makes the town (or school district) pay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting little piece on Daily Kos today about the tendency of intelligent design creationists to target small towns&#151;and the fiscal pain of the towns who agree to carry the banner for creationists. This has a long history, going back to John Scopes&#8217; test of Tennessee&#8217;s anti-evolution law in Dayton, Tennessee, as a town boosterish [&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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-7N","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}