{"id":6870,"date":"2010-10-26T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2010-10-26T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T08:00:39","slug":"embracing-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6870","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a mock-that-which-you-don&#8217;t-understand article in New York magazine recently:  <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2010\/10\/math_classes_for_people_who_ca.html\">The Ten Most Ridiculous-Sounding Math Classes Currently Offered at Liberal-Arts Colleges <\/a>.  A pretty good takedown of this exists at <a href=\"http:\/\/zenoferox.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/laughing-at-what-you-dont-understand.html\">Halfway There<\/a> (found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunclipse.org\/?p=818\">Science After Sunclipse<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The pride with which some people proclaim their math\/science illiteracy is beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a mock-that-which-you-don&#8217;t-understand article in New York magazine recently: The Ten Most Ridiculous-Sounding Math Classes Currently Offered at Liberal-Arts Colleges . A pretty good takedown of this exists at Halfway There (found via Science After Sunclipse) The pride with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6870\">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":[15,24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-journalism","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","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=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}