{"id":966,"date":"2008-02-14T02:10:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T02:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2008-02-14T02:10:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T02:10:57","slug":"evolution-under-siege-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2008\/02\/14\/evolution-under-siege-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution Under Siege In Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseweb.org\/resources\/news\/2008\/FL\/731_evolution_under_siege_in_flori_2_12_2008.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kylebaker.com\/www\/cartoonweek\/evolution.jpg?resize=295%2C309\" alt=\"Kyle Baker\" height=\"309\" width=\"295\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><i><font color=\"#808000\">As the Florida state board of education prepared to consider a final draft of a new set of state science standards, Floridians offered their opinions at a last-minute meeting held in Orlando on February 11, 2008. Over eighty speakers addressed the state commissioner of education, Eric Smith, and, via webcast, the board. A video of the entire meeting is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fldoe.org\/meetings\/2008_02_11\/meetingArchive.asp\">available<\/a> on the department&#8217;s website. As the <i>Orlando Sentinel<\/i> (February 12, 2008) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/politics\/orl-locevolution12021208feb12,0,3717277.story\">reported<\/a>, &#8220;They came from one end of Florida to the other, and with views on evolution as far apart as the 800 miles that separate the Keys from the Panhandle.&#8221; Observers estimated that there were about twice as many speakers opposing the treatment of evolution in the new standards as there were speakers who applauded it.  &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncseweb.org\/resources\/news\/2008\/FL\/731_evolution_under_siege_in_flori_2_12_2008.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><b>National Center for Science Education<\/b><\/a><\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yborcitystogie.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/evolution-under-siege-in-florida.html\" target=\"_blank\">Incoming link<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Florida state board of education prepared to consider a final draft of a new set of state science standards, Floridians offered their opinions at a last-minute meeting held in Orlando on February 11, 2008. Over eighty speakers addressed the state commissioner of education, Eric Smith, and, via webcast, the board. A video of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[515,797,1290,1350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-intelligent-design","category-religious-dogma","category-science-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}