{"id":11830,"date":"2012-05-04T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/05\/04\/heatland-to-take-down-unibombe\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T16:11:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T16:11:55","slug":"heatland-to-take-down-unibombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/heatland-to-take-down-unibombe\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatland to Take Down Unibomber Billboard UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all the bloggers and others who jumped immediately on the Heartland Institute for putting up horribly offensive billboards equating scientists with the scientist\/mathematician killing terrorist Unibomber.  I have heard unofficially that Heartland will be taking down those billboards.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>more details:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4 p.m. update: Heartland Institute President and CEO Joe Bast has issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>We will stop running [the billboard] at 4:00 p.m. CST today. (It&#8217;s a digital billboard, so a simple phone call is all it takes.)<\/p>\n<p>The Heartland Institute knew this was a risk when deciding to test it, but decided it was a necessary price to make an emotional appeal to people who otherwise aren&#8217;t following the climate change debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/capital-weather-gang\/post\/heartland-institute-launches-campaign-linking-terrorism-murder-and-global-warming-belief\/2012\/05\/04\/gIQAJJ3Q1T_blog.html#pagebreak\">see this. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all the bloggers and others who jumped immediately on the Heartland Institute for putting up horribly offensive billboards equating scientists with the scientist\/mathematician killing terrorist Unibomber. I have heard unofficially that Heartland will be taking down those billboards. We&#8217;ll see. more details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-34O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830"}],"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=11830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}