{"id":250,"date":"2008-05-27T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2008-05-27T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T14:58:25","slug":"people_idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=250","title":{"rendered":"People = IDIOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI can sort of understand why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack\/Top_News\/2007\/08\/29\/upi_poll_opposition_to_iraq_war_has_grown\/4354\/\">just over 30% of Americans believe Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI can even understand why <a href=\"http:\/\/people-press.org\/reports\/pdf\/407.pdf\">10% of the population thinks Barack Obama is a Muslim.<\/a> (pdf link)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut really?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/3742\/New-Poll-Gauges-Americans-General-Knowledge-Levels.aspx\">18% of Americans think the sun revolves around the Earth??<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>REALLY??\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/em>By this math, 54 million Americans need to be lined up and shot.  Even if you adjust for everyone who hasn&#8217;t made it through 6th grade science yet, that&#8217;s just abysmal.  I mean, I know I&#8217;m a bright kid, and pretty much all my friends are in the good tail of the bell curve, but still, I cannot conceive that there are literally tens of millions of people in this country with a pre-Galileo concept of how the solar system works.  No wonder the rest of the world is eating our lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can sort of understand why just over 30% of Americans believe Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. I can even understand why 10% of the population thinks Barack Obama is a Muslim. (pdf link) But really? 18% of Americans think the sun revolves around the Earth?? REALLY?? By this math, 54 million Americans &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=250\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People = IDIOTS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}