{"id":152,"date":"2007-02-12T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-08-05T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T16:15:44","slug":"evolution-essay-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Evolution essay contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

High school students can earn a couple hundred dollars and even a student’s teacher can benefit from an essay contest hosted by the Alliance for Science<\/a>. The essay topic is: “Why would I have wanted my doctor to study evolution?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

High school students can earn a couple hundred dollars and even a student’s teacher can benefit from an essay contest hosted by the Alliance for Science. The essay topic is: “Why would I have wanted my doctor to study evolution?”<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-2s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":324,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=324","url_meta":{"origin":152,"position":0},"title":"Alliance for Science essay contest","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The Alliance for Science is hosting its second annual National High School Essay Contest. 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