{"id":1632,"date":"2012-07-27T21:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2012-07-27T21:54:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T01:54:30","slug":"olympic-games-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Games Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a native of Great Britain (English actually) I am always proud when my country of birth show cases their abilities to organize an event. We are never too politically correct in showing our contributions to society through out the world.Whether it&#8217;s in music,the arts or science,Britain for such a small nation, has produce some remarkable people. If any of you watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic games,the theme was about Great Britain&#8217;s greatest achievements and the very first person to be highlighted was Charles Darwin. Rather than a embarrassment as Darwin would have been if he was born in the USA,Darwin was recognised as one of the most brilliant minds Britain has ever produced. Hats off to the organizers of the event for &#8220;telling it like it is&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a native of Great Britain (English actually) I am always proud when my country of birth show cases their abilities to organize an event. We are never too politically correct in showing our contributions to society through out the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1632\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-qk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1118,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1118","url_meta":{"origin":1632,"position":0},"title":"US is &#8220;Dissing Darwin&#8221;","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"September 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest movie about \u00c2\u00a0Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because the films subject of evolution is just to controversial for American audiences. \"Creation\"\u00c2\u00a0covers Darwin's life during the time he wrote \"On the Origin of Species\" and his struggle to equate his religious faith with scientific reason.\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1118#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":867,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=867","url_meta":{"origin":1632,"position":1},"title":"Darwin Day Approaches","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"January 17, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"It is now less than a month before Darwin Day celebrations begin. 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