{"id":4841,"date":"2011-09-14T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T19:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2011-09-14T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T19:01:58","slug":"louisiana-please-try-to-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/louisiana-please-try-to-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana, please try to do better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even Democrats in Louisiana are, well, not very well informed or progressive.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As an afterthought in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvertiser.com\/article\/20110914\/NEWS01\/109140348\/Hardy-no-show-during-first-four-local-debates\">a story about a state assembly election debate<\/a>, we discover that Democart Roshell Jones does not understand the case law relevant to teaching science, and Democrat Vincent Pierre knows even less:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a moderator asked about the Louisiana Science Education Act, which allows public schools to teach creationism on a level comparable to evolution.<\/p>\n<p>While Pierre said he could not answer the question because he was &#8220;not sure what the particular legislation entails,&#8221; Jones said she sees &#8220;no harm in creationism being taught in our public schools.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Democrats in Louisiana are, well, not very well informed or progressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[86,285],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1g5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841"}],"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=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}