{"id":2235,"date":"2014-10-04T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2014-10-04T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:54:09","slug":"interesting-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2235","title":{"rendered":"Interesting endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Times made an interesting endorsement recently. Times recommends: Peluso for Pinellas School Board<\/a><\/p>\n

Peluso, 58, made an unfortunate misstep in August when twice in one day at public forums he professed support for teaching creationism alongside evolution, which would be a violation of the state’s science standards. The next day, Peluso clarified he supported teaching creationism only as part of a world religion course. That’s good, as the district has more pressing challenges than a culture war over widely accepted science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Tampa Bay Times made an interesting endorsement recently. Times recommends: Peluso for Pinellas School Board Peluso, 58, made an unfortunate misstep in August when twice in one day at public forums he professed support for teaching creationism alongside evolution, … 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-A3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2215,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2215","url_meta":{"origin":2235,"position":0},"title":"A scolding","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"August 9, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The Tampa Bay Times scolded Ken Peluso in an editorial today: Pinellas candidate's blunder is unsettling. 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