{"id":2777,"date":"2012-07-20T18:33:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/colbert-on-critical-thinking\/"},"modified":"2012-07-20T18:33:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T23:33:31","slug":"colbert-on-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/20\/colbert-on-critical-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Colbert on Critical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s commentary segment, &quot;The Word,&quot; was right on target on Tuesday night. After returning from vacation, The Colbert Report took on the Texas Republican Party Platform plank on critical thinking . . . specifically, on banning critical thinking in Texas. Here ya go, America.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/416535\/july-17-2012\/the-word---on-the-straight---narrow-minded\" target=\"external-link\">http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/416535\/july-17-2012\/the-word&#8212;on-the-straight&#8212;narrow-minded<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='oembed video'><a href='http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/416535\/july-17-2012\/the-word---on-the-straight---narrow-minded' onclick='this.innerHTML=Base64.decode(\"PGlmcmFtZSBoZWlnaHQ9IjM5OSIgd2lkdGg9IjQ2NSIgc3JjPSJodHRwOi8vZnJpZW5kaWNhLmNvb2xleXNla3VsYS5uZXQvb2VtYmVkL2FIUjBjRG92TDNkM2R5NWpiMnhpWlhKMGJtRjBhVzl1TG1OdmJTOTBhR1V0WTI5c1ltVnlkQzF5WlhCdmNuUXRkbWxrWlc5ekx6UXhOalV6TlM5cWRXeDVMVEUzTFRJd01USXZkR2hsTFhkdmNtUXRMUzF2YmkxMGFHVXRjM1J5WVdsbmFIUXRMUzF1WVhKeWIzY3RiV2x1WkdWayIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9Im5vIiA+RW1iZWRkZWQgY29udGVudDwvaWZyYW1lPg==\"); return false;' style='float:left; margin: 1em; position: relative;'><br \/>\n\t<img width='160' height='120' src='http:\/\/colbertnation.mtvnimages.com\/images\/shows\/colbert_report\/videos\/season8\/08122\/cr_08122_02_v6.jpg' ><\/p>\n<div style='position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 160px; height: 120px; background: url(images\/icons\/48\/play.png) no-repeat center center;'><\/div>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href='http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/416535\/july-17-2012\/the-word---on-the-straight---narrow-minded' rel='oembed'>Colbert Report: The Word &#8211; On the Straight &#038; Narrow-Minded<\/a> on Colbert Nation<br style='clear:left'><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert&#8217;s commentary segment, &quot;The Word,&quot; was right on target on Tuesday night. After returning from vacation, The Colbert Report took on the Texas Republican Party Platform plank on critical thinking . . . specifically, on banning critical thinking in Texas. Here ya go, America. http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/416535\/july-17-2012\/the-word&#8212;on-the-straight&#8212;narrow-minded Colbert Report: The Word &#8211; On the Straight &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-random","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}