{"id":453,"date":"2008-02-19T07:58:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=453"},"modified":"2008-08-06T09:42:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T13:42:24","slug":"were-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"We’re in"},"content":{"rendered":"

The doors opened up a little bit ago. The room holds roughly 120 or so and it is rapidly filling up. It’s obvious that the majority in attendance are against the standards judging from their conversations I’m hearing.<\/p>\n

However, those for the standards are wearing stickers that say “EVOLVE pass the guidelines.” You can’t miss them. They were supposed to say standards instead of guidelines, but you still get the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The doors opened up a little bit ago. The room holds roughly 120 or so and it is rapidly filling up. It’s obvious that the majority in attendance are against the standards judging from their conversations I’m hearing. 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