{"id":2510,"date":"2013-12-15T17:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2013-12-15T17:05:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:05:24","slug":"sagans-take-on-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/12\/15\/sagans-take-on-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Sagan&#8217;s take on government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I were a superstitious person, I&#8217;d say he was psychic. But he wasn&#8217;t. He was simply a brilliant person who, unfortunately, recognized the beginning of a very dangerous trend.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m terribly saddened to share this and wish with all my heart he was incorrect. But I fear he wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carl Sagan and Government_ Charlie Rose.wmv\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_iyFw8UF85A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If I were a superstitious person, I&#8217;d say he was psychic. But he wasn&#8217;t. He was simply a brilliant&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}