{"id":428197,"date":"2010-03-14T23:10:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/intersection\/?p=7314"},"modified":"2010-03-14T23:10:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T03:10:14","slug":"%e2%80%98where-i%e2%80%99m-from-we-believe-all-sorts-of-things-that-aren%e2%80%99t-true-we-call-it-history-%e2%80%99-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/428197","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Where I\u2019m from, we believe all sorts of things that aren\u2019t true. We call it history.\u2019 | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just signed our lease in Texas, I&#8217;m extremely disappointed with my new state&#8217;s Board of Ed. In case you missed it, they&#8217;ve voted to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/13\/education\/13texas.html?scp=1&amp;sq=Texas%20Approves%20Curriculum%20Revised%20by%20Conservatives&amp;st=cse\">remove<\/a> Thomas Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and more from the world history standards. And it gets much <em>worse<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" id=\"W4ae8d36a3102598f4b9d65f396261fce\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"332\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/widgets.clearspring.com\/o\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/4b9d65f396261fce\/4ae8d36a3102598f\/ff80dd5\/-cpid\/743c700346724691\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Details at <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/13\/education\/13texas.html?scp=1&amp;sq=Texas%20Approves%20Curriculum%20Revised%20by%20Conservatives&amp;st=cse\">The New York Times<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/03\/14\/update-texas-revisionist-mcleroy-on-abc\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2010\/03\/12\/the-enlightenment-goes-dark\/\">The Loom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EDRLf2eNb0e0D0yJ0q6q9248JMs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EDRLf2eNb0e0D0yJ0q6q9248JMs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EDRLf2eNb0e0D0yJ0q6q9248JMs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/EDRLf2eNb0e0D0yJ0q6q9248JMs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/rfsszR9AgiI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having just signed our lease in Texas, I&#8217;m extremely disappointed with my new state&#8217;s Board of Ed. In case you missed it, they&#8217;ve voted to remove Thomas Jefferson, the Enlightenment, and more from the world history standards. And it gets much worse: Details at The New York Times, Bad Astronomy and The Loom.<\/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-428197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428197","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=428197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}