{"id":1062,"date":"2009-06-07T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2009-07-29T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T21:55:53","slug":"op-ed-in-another-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed in another paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

My op-ed about Florida science education made it into yet another paper today: the Sun-Sentinel<\/a> in Ft. Lauderdale.<\/p>\n

My op-ed prompted a few e-mails to me from people asking various questions. I’ve been kinda busy these past few days, but when I get a moment I will defintely respond to them. It’s great to see that we are successfully bringing attention to science education issues. If we didn’t, who would?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My op-ed about Florida science education made it into yet another paper today: the Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale. My op-ed prompted a few e-mails to me from people asking various questions. I’ve been kinda busy these past few days, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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-h8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1059,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1059","url_meta":{"origin":1062,"position":0},"title":"Op-ed: Is science education important to Florida?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 4, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this week I submitted an op-ed column to newspapers across the state on behalf of Florida Citizens for Science. 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