{"id":2155,"date":"2008-12-09T12:32:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2008-12-09T12:32:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T19:32:39","slug":"math-gains-but-world-still-scheduled-to-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/09\/math-gains-but-world-still-scheduled-to-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Math Gains, But World Still Scheduled to End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this era of the impending apocalypse, what the hell is a <a href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/pubsearch\/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2009001\">report<\/a> about United States students actually showing gains in mathematics doing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/10\/education\/10math.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">New York Times<\/a>?  Dude, media, get on message and send us some more doom and gloom!  I especially need more gloom here in Seattle where the sun rises at 7:47 a.m. and sets at 4:18 p.m.<br \/>\n<b>Update:<\/b> Ah, science results are flat, so it&#8217;s the end of the world as we know it, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/09\/AR2008120901031.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">The Washington Post<\/a>.  Thank&#8217;s WaPo for restoring pessimism into my world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this era of the impending apocalypse, what the hell is a report about United States students actually showing gains in mathematics doing in the New York Times? Dude, media, get on message and send us some more doom and gloom! I especially need more gloom here in Seattle where the sun rises at 7:47 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/12\/09\/math-gains-but-world-still-scheduled-to-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Math Gains, But World Still Scheduled to End&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","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=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}