{"id":961,"date":"2009-03-19T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=961"},"modified":"2009-04-30T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:37:10","slug":"meanwhile-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=961","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t been following what’s been going on in Texas, you need to. The Texas Freedom Network<\/a> will get you up to date, and the National Center for Science Education<\/a> will sum things up for you. The “strengths and weaknesses” garbage going on there is a larger version of the “critical analysis” garbage we are fighting in Florida right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t been following what’s been going on in Texas, you need to. The Texas Freedom Network will get you up to date, and the National Center for Science Education will sum things up for you. The “strengths and … Continue reading →<\/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-fv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":873,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=873","url_meta":{"origin":961,"position":0},"title":"What’s happening in Texas","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 22, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple of Florida newspapers ran stories this morning about the fight over evolution instruction in Texas. 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