{"id":8338,"date":"2010-07-15T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/15\/research-explains-republicans\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T17:29:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T17:29:10","slug":"research-explains-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/15\/research-explains-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Research explains Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts &#8212; and often become even more attached to their beliefs. The finding raises questions about a key principle of a strong democracy: that a well-informed electorate is best.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128490874\">See and hear the story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts &#8212; and often become even more attached to their beliefs. The finding raises questions about a key principle of a strong democracy: that a well-informed electorate is best. Sound familiar? See and hear the story here.<\/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\/p5fhV1-2au","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338"}],"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=8338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}