{"id":7041,"date":"2011-07-06T11:59:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2011-07-06T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T18:59:55","slug":"decline-of-america-one-in-a-continuing-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/decline-of-america-one-in-a-continuing-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Decline of America, One in a Continuing Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tidbits of news, depressing enough on their own and adding up to a bigger picture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The James Webb Space Telescope, having gone so far over budget that large swathes of NASA&#8217;s science program has been shelved to make room for it, is <a href=\"http:\/\/andyxl.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/06\/jwst-cancellation-proposed\/\">now in danger of being cancelled<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone knows that education is of paramount importance, especially for economically disadvantaged kids.  Therefore, communities across the country are &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/schools-out-for-summer-schools-out-forever\/2011\/07\/06\/gIQAzJQr0H_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein\">cutting back on school time<\/a>, especially for economically disadvantaged kids.<\/li>\n<li><em>Transformers: Dark of the Moon<\/em> &#8212; the climactic conclusion to auteur Michael Bay&#8217;s explosive trilogy of awesome explodyness &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/news\/?id=3199&amp;p=.htm\">grossed over $116 million<\/a> over the holiday weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the other hand, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/\">Google+<\/a> was launched.  So it&#8217;s not all bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tidbits of news, depressing enough on their own and adding up to a bigger picture. The James Webb Space Telescope, having gone so far over budget that large swathes of NASA&#8217;s science program has been shelved to make room for it, is now in danger of being cancelled. Everyone knows that education is of paramount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041","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=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}