{"id":11006,"date":"2013-02-12T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T21:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11006"},"modified":"2013-02-12T14:06:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T22:06:51","slug":"celebrating-darwin-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/celebrating-darwin-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Darwin in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the most trivial things can seem, in context, like brave stances. Here is ex-physicist and current New Jersey representative <a href=\"http:\/\/holt.house.gov\/\">Rush Holt<\/a> standing up in Congress to say nice things about Charles Darwin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"In Support of Darwin Day\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_PI19y5Nsy1s\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/PI19y5Nsy1s\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PI19y5Nsy1s\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT1M8S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2013-02-12T19:18:01Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_PI19y5Nsy1s\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/PI19y5Nsy1s\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">In Support of Darwin Day<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PI19y5Nsy1s\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/PI19y5Nsy1s\/0.jpg\" alt=\"In Support of Darwin Day\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) addressed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 12, 2013 to recognize the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Admittedly we&#8217;re not talking super-brave here &#8212; Princeton and surrounding townships aren&#8217;t exactly hotbeds of young-Earth creationism. But it&#8217;s sadly true that forthright statements in favor of evolution have become &#8220;controversial&#8221; among national politicians in this country. Happy to see someone do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>(Aside to WordPress\/YouTube wonks: there are two ways to embed a YouTube video on the blog, the new &#8220;iframe&#8221; way and the old way. It seems that the old way means that videos don&#8217;t show up on mobile devices, but the new way means that videos don&#8217;t show up in the RSS feed. Any wisdoms?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the most trivial things can seem, in context, like brave stances. Here is ex-physicist and current New Jersey representative Rush Holt standing up in Congress to say nice things about Charles Darwin. Admittedly we&#8217;re not talking super-brave here &#8212; Princeton and surrounding townships aren&#8217;t exactly hotbeds of young-Earth creationism. But it&#8217;s sadly true that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-and-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}