{"id":272,"date":"2011-06-21T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=272"},"modified":"2011-06-21T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:33:49","slug":"utterly-shocking-and-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"Utterly shocking and bad."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Miss USA contestants speaking about evolution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gofckdVB2fU&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">This <\/a>just makes me look at the state of science education in the USA and cry. \u00a0I don&#8217;t usually expect a lot of neurons to be shared among the contestants of a beauty pageant, but to hear the total bullshit that streams from their mouths in this, it just makes me want to beat Jimmy Swaggart or Rick Warren until they bleed.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. \u00a0The level of ignorance in this video is just stunning. \u00a0Not only the missing understanding about what is current in science, but the underlying failure in our school system to get the point across.<\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, this just further demonstrates the criminality that passes for religion back home.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: \u00a0On the plus side, at least the winner, out of the fifty-one contestants,\u00a0<a title=\"Think Progress covers the winner\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2011\/06\/20\/248482\/miss-usa-believes-evolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">was one of the two who actually got it close to right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just makes me look at the state of science education in the USA and cry. \u00a0I don&#8217;t usually expect a lot of neurons to be shared among the contestants of a beauty pageant, but to hear the total bullshit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}