{"id":279835,"date":"2010-02-04T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=11260"},"modified":"2010-02-04T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T02:07:13","slug":"dana-mccaffery-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/279835","title":{"rendered":"Dana McCaffery | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/danamccaffery.com\/\">Dana McCaffery<\/a>&#8217;s first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>It is in her memory that we must all stand up to unreason. It is in her memory that we must never tire, and never fail.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/dana_mccaffery.jpg\" alt=\"dana_mccaffery\" title=\"dana_mccaffery\" width=\"571\" height=\"492\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11262\"\/><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p><em>[Updated to add: By coincidence, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2010\/02\/04\/bc-whooping-cough-west-kootenay.html\">there is an outbreak of pertussis in British Columbia right now<\/a>; 19 confirmed cases in an area with low vaccination rates, well below what&#8217;s needed for herd immunity. Wakefield may be disgraced, and Dorey gone, but this fight will continue.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dEs9D1vl2aloA1HeUwoPrEthj3g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dEs9D1vl2aloA1HeUwoPrEthj3g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dEs9D1vl2aloA1HeUwoPrEthj3g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/dEs9D1vl2aloA1HeUwoPrEthj3g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/8kjJri0Y04E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/YaQdx7t-iYs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Dana McCaffery&#8217;s first birthday. It is in her memory that we must all stand up to unreason. It is in her memory that we must never tire, and never fail. [Updated to add: By coincidence, there is an outbreak of pertussis in British Columbia right now; 19 confirmed cases in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}