{"id":1459,"date":"2007-05-30T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T09:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/30\/write-essays-win-money\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T09:46:12","slug":"write-essays-win-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/30\/write-essays-win-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Write Essays, Win Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>Seed<\/cite> is running an <a href=\"http:\/\/seedmagazine.com\/writingcontest\/\">essay contest with a $2,500 prize<\/a>, so if you like science, and think you write well, take a whack at this question:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What does it mean to be scientifically literate in the 21st century?<\/p>\n<p>How do we measure the scientific literacy of a society? How do we boost it? What is the value of this literacy? Who is responsible for fostering it?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They&#8217;re looking for the best essay of 1,200 or fewer words, and are offering a $1,000 second prize as well. The winning entries will be  published in <cite>Seed<\/cite>, which is a nice bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seed is running an essay contest with a $2,500 prize, so if you like science, and think you write well, take a whack at this question: What does it mean to be scientifically literate in the 21st century? How do we measure the scientific literacy of a society? How do we boost it? What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/30\/write-essays-win-money\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Write Essays, Win Money<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}