{"id":1284,"date":"2011-03-21T22:37:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T02:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2011-03-21T22:40:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T02:40:03","slug":"education-commissioner-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Education commissioner resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m testing posting here from my phone, and so I’ll use the big news of the day for this practice run. Florida education commissioner suddenly resigns<\/a>. My initial reaction is that this is not a good thing. Education in Florida stands a good chance of sliding downhill. The question here is, how far down will it go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m testing posting here from my phone, and so I’ll use the big news of the day for this practice run. Florida education commissioner suddenly resigns. My initial reaction is that this is not a good thing. Education in Florida … Continue reading →<\/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-kI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1940,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1940","url_meta":{"origin":1284,"position":0},"title":"All sorts of interesting news today","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Science standards, opposition to evolution in Kentucky, Florida's uncertain science standards future, and Bennett's resignation. 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