{"id":2143,"date":"2009-02-12T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T02:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2009-02-12T21:17:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T02:17:41","slug":"reality-based","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Reality based"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">Just got finished watching Obama give a speech to the Illinois Lincoln Society. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">It probably won&#8217;t be noticed much, but he noted that today is Charles Darwin&#8217;s 200th birthday as well as Lincoln&#8217;s. He made the remark in the context of urging a return to a respect for science, implying, if not saying that Darwin was right. That shouldn&#8217;t be noteworthy, but in our presently degraded culture, it is a monumental step forward.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got finished watching Obama give a speech to the Illinois Lincoln Society. It probably won&#8217;t be noticed much, but he noted that today is Charles Darwin&#8217;s 200th birthday as well as Lincoln&#8217;s. He made the remark in the context of urging a return to a respect for science, implying, if not saying that Darwin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}