{"id":1286,"date":"2011-03-27T21:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T01:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2011-03-27T21:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T01:57:46","slug":"sign-the-petition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"Sign the petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Senator Stephen Wise\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1266\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153non-evolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153theory of whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/a>bill (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2011\/1854\">SB 1854<\/a>, critical analysis of evolution in public schools), concerned citizen Eduardo Pazos of Miami Beach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/stop-fl-anti-evolution-education-bill-sb-1854\">started an online petition<\/a>. It&#8217;s off to a good start with 211 signatures so far. However, many signatures are from out of state folks. We need more people from Florida to sign on. Also, this petition site sends an e-mail to our target audience, the state legislature, every time someone signs.<\/p>\n<p>When you sign the petition, I encourage you to use the &#8220;leave a comment&#8221; link that is right below the fields you fill out when you sign. The last time we used a petition, it wasn&#8217;t so much the number of people who signed, but rather the names of significant individuals and the comments people made when signing that made an impact. Spread the word!<\/p>\n<div id=\"change_BottomBar\"><span id=\"change_Powered\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petitions<\/a> by Change.org<\/span><a>|<\/a><span id=\"change_Start\">Start a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petition\" target=\"_blank\">Petition<\/a> \u00c2\u00bb<\/span><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/e.change.org:80\/flash_petitions_widget.js?width=220&amp;petition_id=41504&amp;color=1A3563\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to Senator Stephen Wise\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153non-evolution\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153theory of whatever\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bill (SB 1854, critical analysis of evolution in public schools), concerned citizen Eduardo Pazos of Miami Beach started an online petition. It&#8217;s off to a good start with 211 signatures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1286\">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":[29],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-kK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":416,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=416","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":0},"title":"Sign the petition","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science has created an online petition. Please take a moment to sign it. Provided we can collect a decent number of signatures, we then plan on printing a copy and presenting it to the State Board of Education. We don't have much time, though, so please don't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Alert&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1054,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1054","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":1},"title":"Put your signature where your science is.","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't have near the influence that PZ does, but I'm sure that since this item is of concern to us here in Florida, we can sure pitch in! Sign the petition. The Johnson-Sea-Link I & II submersibles are owned and operated by Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) at Florida\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1054#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":424,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=424","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":2},"title":"Call to Action! Homework Assignment: Evolution Education","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 3, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida Citizens for Science has launched the final Call to Action project in advance of the state board of education voting on the new state science standards Feb. 19. You are invited to participate in Homework Assignment: Evolution Education. We are asking you to send a fact sheet (PDF version\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Alert&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":435,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=435","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":3},"title":"Full calendar","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, since there are quite a few things happening, I'll try to outline it all here for your convenience. Feb. 9 -- Darwin Day in Tallahassee. Also, the Florida Citizens for Science annual meeting will be held at this event. And another Darwin Day event will be held in Coconut\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Alert&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Alert","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=6"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":747,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=747","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":4},"title":"A mess in Texas","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 15, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In case you haven't heard, Texas science education is taking a beating. The Texas Freedom Network (a Citizens for Science type of organization ... sorry, got that wrong ... see the comments for clarification) announced that the Texas board of education padded a curriculum review panel with a few well\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=747#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2737,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2737","url_meta":{"origin":1286,"position":5},"title":"Textbook battles: a glimpse into the future","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"May 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most controversial issues in recent years when it comes to textbooks used in Florida schools is the coverage of religion in history books. The topic was the spark that started the whole instructional materials bills fiasco we're now facing. And the subject is obviously still white hot.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Instructional Materials bills '17&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Instructional Materials bills '17","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=32"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}