{"id":38139,"date":"2019-04-25T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T05:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38139"},"modified":"2019-03-25T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T15:26:49","slug":"qotd-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/qotd-science\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;Science&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Ah, science. If you\u2019re even loosely engaged in the wild and dark art that is politics these days, you know by now that \u201cscience,\u201d as a word, has taken on an almost mystical meaning. \u201cScience,\u201d in many of its modern incantations, now serves as a form of code, as vague and fuzzy as a Wiccan chant. For a growing number of political activists, the meaning is simple: Science, you see, is a lively mix of standard progressive hobbyhorses, tossed wild-eyed and cranky into one cantankerous bag.<\/p>\n<p>Heather Wilhelm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/446654\/march-for-science-diversity-statement-progressive-identity-politics\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Left\u2019s New Cure-All: \u2018Science\u2019&#8221;, <em>National Review<\/em>, 2017-04-12.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, science. If you\u2019re even loosely engaged in the wild and dark art that is politics these days, you know by now that \u201cscience,\u201d as a word, has taken on an almost mystical meaning. \u201cScience,\u201d in many of its modern incantations, now serves as a form of code, as vague and fuzzy as a Wiccan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,53,41,13],"tags":[245,1020],"class_list":["post-38139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-climatechange","tag-progressives"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9V9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38140,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38139\/revisions\/38140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}