{"id":594,"date":"2008-05-27T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T23:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=594"},"modified":"2008-08-06T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T01:55:29","slug":"nominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Nominated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Citizens for Science has been nominated a couple of categories for Florida Netroots Awards<\/a>. When voting, you are required to make some selections in certain categories or else your ballot won’t be accepted. Do me a favor: If you are just wanting to send some votes our way, that’s fine (and thank you), but please don’t just throw away some random votes on those mandatory categories. Take some time to look at the nominees. I discovered some interesting sites new to me that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Citizens for Science has been nominated a couple of categories for Florida Netroots Awards. When voting, you are required to make some selections in certain categories or else your ballot won’t be accepted. 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