{"id":3628,"date":"2019-07-09T23:58:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2019-07-09T23:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T03:58:46","slug":"issac-asimov-on-the-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=3628","title":{"rendered":"Issac Asimov on the cult of ignorance in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that \u201cmy ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isaac Asimov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}