{"id":4361,"date":"2013-08-14T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2013-08-14T08:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T13:35:37","slug":"a-remarkable-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"A remarkable talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please enjoy this extended exchange between a 14 year-old\u00c2\u00a0Rachel Parent and Canadian talk show host Kevin O&#8217;Leary\u00c2\u00a0on the subject of labeling GMO food.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit of background: Parent advocates the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) while Kevin O&#8217;Leary thinks, from what I can gather based on this video, being against GMO foods is tantamount to condemning hundreds of thousands of Asian children to death.\u00c2\u00a0 Didn&#8217;t make sense to me either.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch the whole thing: the kid is amazing.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HIXER_yZUBg\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The kid is amazing, but the real talent is O&#8217;Leary: in the face of the kid&#8217;s lucid focus on the issue in question he manages not to understand a single thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please enjoy this extended exchange between a 14 year-old\u00c2\u00a0Rachel Parent and Canadian talk show host Kevin O&#8217;Leary\u00c2\u00a0on the subject of labeling GMO food.\u00c2\u00a0 A bit of background: Parent advocates the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) while Kevin O&#8217;Leary thinks, from what I can gather based on this video, being against GMO foods is tantamount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A remarkable talent<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1716,1715,1717],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-kevin-oleary","tag-lang-and-oleary","tag-rachel-parent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}