{"id":1156,"date":"2010-01-08T15:31:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2010-01-08T15:39:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T19:39:38","slug":"column-in-paper-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1156","title":{"rendered":"Column in paper today"},"content":{"rendered":"

FCS’s Vice President Jonathan Smith had an article in the Lakeland Ledger today entitled The Self-Deception of Ignoring Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now is the time to take a long, hard look at ourselves and decide what we expect for our students our state and our nation, or face the inevitable consequences. When your child graduates from high school, only to find that the job he or she desires has been taken by a person educated in another state or more likely, another country, who then will carry the blame?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FCS’s Vice President Jonathan Smith had an article in the Lakeland Ledger today entitled The Self-Deception of Ignoring Science. 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