{"id":1184,"date":"2010-04-06T16:42:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2010-04-06T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:42:57","slug":"well-imwere-in-good-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"Well &#8230; I&#8217;m\/we&#8217;re in good company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won an award, and so did Florida Citizens for Science &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2010\/04\/fafarman_likes_me_he_really_li.php\">sort of<\/a>. Kinda cool that I\/we are alongside some other notable names.<\/p>\n<p>The more serious and meaningful award Joe Wolf and I received is <a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/about\/friend-of-darwin\">courtesy of NCSE<\/a>. And once again, it&#8217;s an honor to be named among the other awesome recipients there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won an award, and so did Florida Citizens for Science &#8230; sort of. Kinda cool that I\/we are alongside some other notable names. The more serious and meaningful award Joe Wolf and I received is courtesy of NCSE. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1184\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-j6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":582,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=582","url_meta":{"origin":1184,"position":0},"title":"One of the best in the nation","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I feel like I've been writing about science standards battles and legislative battles for far too long. 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