{"id":6097,"date":"2006-02-17T06:01:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6097"},"modified":"2006-02-17T06:01:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T11:01:46","slug":"y-mx-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=6097","title":{"rendered":"Y = MX + B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P.Z Myers (no this isn&#8217;t an ID post) has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2006\/02\/richard_cohen_advocate_for_ign.php\">post<\/a> up in which he blasts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2006\/02\/15\/BL2006021501989.html\">Richard Cohen<\/a> for being anti-algebra.  I&#8217;m not sure that Myers <em>or<\/em> Cohen are entirely correct.  Myers seems to have no sympathy for a girl who failed algebra six times trying  to satisfy a HS diploma requirement, and Cohen seems to see no value whatsoever in algebra.  It&#8217;s an interesting debate.  If you&#8217;re going to follow the links, I suggest starting with Cohen&#8217;s WaPo column and then Myers&#8217; response.  And make sure you read the comments on Pharyngula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P.Z Myers (no this isn&#8217;t an ID post) has an interesting post up in which he blasts Richard Cohen for being anti-algebra. I&#8217;m not sure that Myers or Cohen are entirely correct. Myers seems to have no sympathy for a girl who failed algebra six times trying to satisfy a HS diploma requirement, and Cohen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}