{"id":450,"date":"2008-02-19T07:03:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T12:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=450"},"modified":"2008-08-06T09:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T13:53:51","slug":"good-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"good morning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning from Tallahassee! There are about 15 people standing outside the caitol doors waiting to be let in. The vast majority are pro-standards. One woman is standing off to the side by herself reading a bible. Sir Harry Kroto, Nobel winner in chemistry, is here along with other folks representing standards writers\/framers, pro-science religious denominations, and regular ol citizens like me.<\/p>\n<p>No protesters or angry mobs anywhere to be seen. Too early and cold I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning from Tallahassee! There are about 15 people standing outside the caitol doors waiting to be let in. The vast majority are pro-standards. One woman is standing off to the side by herself reading a bible. Sir Harry Kroto, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=450\">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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-7g","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1894,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1894","url_meta":{"origin":450,"position":0},"title":"There is hope","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As Paul Cottle at Bridge to Tomorrow notes (welcome back to blogging Paul!) 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