{"id":1711,"date":"2008-08-29T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2008-08-29T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T16:10:02","slug":"palins-a-creationist-baller-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/palins-a-creationist-baller-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin&#8217;s a creationist baller, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/trailhead\/archive\/2008\/08\/29\/barry-vs-the-barracuda.aspx\">Slate<\/a>: <i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the &#8217;80s, a basketball standout nicknamed &#8220;Sarah Barracuda&#8221; gamely stepped onto the court despite a stress fracture, determined to lead Wasilla High School to a state championship. That Barracuda was Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president (according to her Wikipedia page).<\/p>\n<p>McCain&#8217;s pick of Palin means a fifth presidential\/vice presidential debate should be added to the calendar. A cross-ticket game of horse between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. Obama has the upper hand because he plays regularly, but Palin has played ball on a bigger stage than Obama ever has. It would rival the Michael Jordan vs. Larry Bird showdown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/afarensis\/2006\/10\/27\/intelligent_design_and_the_ala\/\">Science Blogs<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/378167281\/917\">Daily Kos<\/a>: <i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public schools popped up in the Alaska governor&#8217;s race this week [October 27, 2006] when Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught alongside evolution in the state&#8217;s public classrooms. Palin was answering a question from the moderator near the conclusion of Wednesday night&#8217;s televised debate on KAKM Channel 7 when she said, &#8220;Teach both. You know, don&#8217;t be afraid of information.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: In the &#8217;80s, a basketball standout nicknamed &#8220;Sarah Barracuda&#8221; gamely stepped onto the court despite a stress fracture, determined to lead Wasilla High School to a state championship. That Barracuda was Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president (according to her Wikipedia page). McCain&#8217;s pick of Palin means a fifth presidential\/vice presidential debate should be added to the calendar. A cross-ticket game of horse between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. Obama has the upper hand because he plays&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","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":[6,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-alaska","category-politics","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-rB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}