{"id":1156,"date":"2008-01-01T11:36:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T11:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/01\/thank-you-st-petersburg-times\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T11:36:28","slug":"thank-you-st-petersburg-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/thank-you-st-petersburg-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, St. Petersburg Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is fun, and appropriate, to slam local newspapers that uncritically regurgitate yahooistic creationist rhetoric.  But when the local papers display fits of rational thinking, we should praise them.<!--more-->Thus, I bring you a quote from the St. Petersburg times.  This is from their list of Top Ten People to Watch in 2008, and it concerns recent and ongoing political events in Florida:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>4. Charles Darwin<\/strong>Despite 148 years of uninterrupted scientific validation, Darwin and his seminal work, The Origin of Species, continue to lose ground to the Judeo-Christian creation story.Just this month, a majority of the Pinellas School Board said they thought it would be good to balance the teaching of evolution with creationism, which one of them said &#8220;can explain some of the gaps and holes in the theory of evolution.&#8221;Just how an untestable assertion that the world was made in six days could explain these unspecified inadequacies is left unclear. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2008\/01\/01\/Worldandnation\/10_to_watch.shtml\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is fun, and appropriate, to slam local newspapers that uncritically regurgitate yahooistic creationist rhetoric. But when the local papers display fits of rational thinking, we should praise them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[55],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-iE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}