{"id":1060,"date":"2009-06-05T06:31:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T10:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2009-07-29T17:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T21:57:06","slug":"op-ed-in-st-pete-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1060","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed in St. Pete Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

My op-ed about Florida science education ran in today’s St. Petersburg Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and today is my 16th wedding anniversary. How did she put up with me for so long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My op-ed about Florida science education ran in today’s St. Petersburg Times. Oh, and today is my 16th wedding anniversary. How did she put up with me for so long?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-h6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1061,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1061","url_meta":{"origin":1060,"position":0},"title":"Op-ed noticed by Education Week","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Education Week blog Curriculum Matters picked up on my op-ed that appeared in the St. Petersburg Times. 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