{"id":1193,"date":"2006-02-17T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T16:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2006-02-17T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T16:45:26","slug":"math-is-hard-become-a-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/02\/17\/math-is-hard-become-a-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Math is Hard, Become a Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to get your blood pressure elevated is to read Richard Cohen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/BL2006021501989.html\">opinion article<\/a> in the Washington Post where he slams requirements for learning algebra in high school.<br \/>\nWhat I love about the article, though, is that he admits, right of the top, the following<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI confess to be one of those people who hate math. I can do my basic arithmetic all right (although not percentages)&#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, okay, so we just found out you can&#8217;t perform something so simple, fifth graders can do it, and we&#8217;re supposed to listen to what you are saying?  Uhuh.  Brilliant tactic there Mr. Cohen.<br \/>\n(And yes, the title is meant as a joke.  Just because the Washington Post has one ignoramus does not imply that all journalists are braindead.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to get your blood pressure elevated is to read Richard Cohen&#8217;s opinion article in the Washington Post where he slams requirements for learning algebra in high school. What I love about the article, though, is that he admits, right of the top, the following I confess to be one of those people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/02\/17\/math-is-hard-become-a-journalist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Math is Hard, Become a Journalist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}