{"id":4624,"date":"2014-01-23T07:29:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2014-01-23T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:29:08","slug":"thunderbolt-and-lightning-very-very-frightening-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4624","title":{"rendered":"Thunderbolt and lightning, Very, very frightening me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gothereguide.com\/Images\/Italy\/Rome\/Campo_de_Fiori-Giordano_Bruno.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/article\/43000_Glenn_Beck_Attacks_Bill_Nye_for_Opposing_the_Teaching_of_Creationism_to_Kids\">Glenn Beck<\/a>, as <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5189897\/glenn-beck-calls-himself-a-rodeo-clown\">self-described rodeo clown<\/a>, i.e., troll, on Bill Nye the Science Guy&#8217;s advocacy of scientific literacy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . .Or Bill Nye the Science Guy, who said teaching creationism is just dangerous and not appropriate for children!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>BILL NYE: And I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fine, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make your kids do it because we need them.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s he going to look? Is he going to look like the people who threw Galileo up?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be hard to make this analogy worse. \u00c2\u00a0Any takers? \u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebritynetworth.com\/richest-celebrities\/glenn-beck-net-worth\/\">There&#8217;s good money in this kind of thing, apparently<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is Glenn Beck, as self-described rodeo clown, i.e., troll, on Bill Nye the Science Guy&#8217;s advocacy of scientific literacy: . . . .Or Bill Nye the Science Guy, who said teaching creationism is just dangerous and not appropriate for children! BILL NYE: And I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=4624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thunderbolt and lightning, Very, very frightening me.<\/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":[1837,1838,1839,694],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bill-nye","tag-creationism","tag-galileo","tag-glenn-beck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}