{"id":416,"date":"2008-02-03T07:39:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T12:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=416"},"modified":"2008-08-06T10:37:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T14:37:50","slug":"sign-the-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"Sign the petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Citizens for Science has created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipetitions.com\/petition\/flascience\/\">an online petition<\/a>. 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&#8217;t have much time, though, so please don&#8217;t put it off!<\/p>\n<p>[update]\u00c2\u00a0 We are up to 456 signatures! Don&#8217;t stop, folks. Spread the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=416\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[6,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-6I","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1286,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1286","url_meta":{"origin":416,"position":0},"title":"Sign the petition","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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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":1054,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1054","url_meta":{"origin":416,"position":3},"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. 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