{"id":575484,"date":"2010-05-22T00:46:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=16056"},"modified":"2010-05-22T00:46:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:46:01","slug":"texas-doomed-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/575484","title":{"rendered":"Texas: doomed | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/37271857\/ns\/us_news-life\/\">that&#8217;s that<\/a>. Congratulations, Texas State Board of Education and <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/05\/18\/ca-to-tx-weve-got-our-eye-on-you\/\">the far-right creationist historical revisionists on it<\/a>. This outcome is not a surprise, but that doesn&#8217;t make it any less infuriating, or any less sad. After all the fighting, all the negative publicity, and all the people &#8212; including teachers and educational experts &#8212; who showed them clearly why they were wrong, the antireality majority on the BoE did what we knew they would do.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a parent of a school-age child in Texas, I would seriously consider moving to a different state. Because&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2009\/01\/doomed_texas.jpg\" alt=\"Texas: doomed\" title=\"Texas: doomed\" width=\"400\" height=\"302\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3758\"\/><\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the ten gallon hat &#8212; with, apparently, nothing in it &#8212; to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alanbuckingham\/status\/14468712616\">Alan Buckingham<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pInWFHVWrhfGhVmJhvUXUIgl7zU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pInWFHVWrhfGhVmJhvUXUIgl7zU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pInWFHVWrhfGhVmJhvUXUIgl7zU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/pInWFHVWrhfGhVmJhvUXUIgl7zU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/yQ_RvRseXC4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/Bz5ySwCNucw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s that. Congratulations, Texas State Board of Education and the far-right creationist historical revisionists on it. This outcome is not a surprise, but that doesn&#8217;t make it any less infuriating, or any less sad. After all the fighting, all the negative publicity, and all the people &#8212; including teachers and educational experts &#8212; who [&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-575484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575484","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=575484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}