{"id":13380,"date":"2013-03-24T07:25:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T12:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13380"},"modified":"2013-03-24T07:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T12:25:37","slug":"bad-news-on-the-doorstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13380","title":{"rendered":"Bad News on the Doorstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe over at It&#8217;s Okay to be Smart, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/post\/46087769640\/i-hate-waking-up-to-bad-news-thanks-to-congress\">hates waking up to bad news<\/a>, in this case the news that NASA is dialing back some of their outreach due to sequestration budget cuts. I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13277\">have already noted<\/a> that the GOP was shocked, shocked! that the White House was canceling tours so that they could deploy secret service agents, and that (IMO) the Smithsonian was making a tactical mistake by hiding the effect of their cuts and crippling their future.<\/p>\n<p>While I hate to see it happen, I think it&#8217;s the proper course of action, so that the voters can see the effect of a dysfunctional congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe over at It&#8217;s Okay to be Smart, hates waking up to bad news, in this case the news that NASA is dialing back some of their outreach due to sequestration budget cuts. I have already noted that the GOP &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13380\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}