{"id":4869,"date":"2010-02-19T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2010-02-19T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T08:00:25","slug":"mr-smith-doesnt-go-to-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4869","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Smith Doesn&#039;t Go to Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc4.com\/content\/news\/top%20stories\/story\/13-year-old-helps-save-daylight-saving-in-Utah\/W3Vv5bCZtESBknnzFXNxCA.cspx\">13-year-old helps save daylight saving in Utah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know this is supposed to be an uplifting story of how clever a teenager is, in a sort of afterschool special kinda way, but I&#8217;m more cynical than that.  I see it as a bunch of blowhard politicians happily debating something they do not understand, have made no effort to understand, but are willing to make a decision about anyway, despite the fact that by not understanding the issue you have no hope of recognizing the ramifications of your decision.  All this despite the fact that a teenager can understand and explain the concept, so it really wouldn&#8217;t have been all that difficult to have a staffer spend a few minutes Googling the information and summarizing it for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13-year-old helps save daylight saving in Utah I know this is supposed to be an uplifting story of how clever a teenager is, in a sort of afterschool special kinda way, but I&#8217;m more cynical than that. I see it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4869\">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":[39,40,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-politics","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869","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=4869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}