{"id":30583,"date":"2020-09-16T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30583"},"modified":"2020-09-16T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T17:50:32","slug":"no-home-for-magical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/16\/no-home-for-magical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"No Home For Magical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Scientific American<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; which I do not read &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/scientific-american-endorses-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is offering up some advice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Scientific American<\/em>\u00a0has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people\u2014because he rejects evidence and science. The most devastating example is his dishonest and inept response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/cases-updates\/cases-in-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cost more than 190,000 Americans their lives<\/a>\u00a0by the middle of September. He has also attacked environmental protections, medical care, and the researchers and public science agencies that help this country prepare for its greatest challenges. That is why we urge you to vote for Joe Biden, who is offering fact-based plans to protect our health, our economy and the environment. These and other proposals he has put forth can set the country back on course for a safer, more prosperous and more equitable future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American &#8211; which I do not read &#8211; is offering up some advice: Scientific American\u00a0has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so. We do not do this lightly. The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/09\/16\/no-home-for-magical-thinking\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30584,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30583\/revisions\/30584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}