{"id":1603,"date":"2007-06-09T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T13:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2007-06-09T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T13:25:53","slug":"knownothings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Know-Nothings"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to this survey,  approximately 20% of Americans must’ve been absent from school on the day they taught that the Earth orbits around the Sun<\/a>. Or maybe these are the unfortunate souls who were home-schooled by well-meaning but completely deluded fundamentalist parents. And you know what’s sad? These statistics don’t even have the power to shock me anymore. When the grand opening of a creationist “museum”<\/a> gets oodles of press coverage and three major-party presidential candidates proudly declare their belief in magic<\/a>, it’s folly to pretend that a good portion of Americans don’t share these medieval worldviews. I blame the Europeans. If you guys hadn’t been so eager to deport your religious fanatics a few hundred years ago, the majority of decent and informed Americans wouldn’t have to contend with their irksome and embarrassing descendants today. Thanks a bunch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to this survey,  approximately 20% of Americans must’ve been absent from school on the day they taught that the Earth orbits around the Sun. Or maybe these are the unfortunate souls who were home-schooled by well-meaning but completely deluded fundamentalist parents. And you know what’s sad? These statistics don’t even have the power to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-pR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}