{"id":1809,"date":"2007-10-08T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T09:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/08\/columbus-day-poll-favorite-dis\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T09:48:02","slug":"columbus-day-poll-favorite-dis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/08\/columbus-day-poll-favorite-dis\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Day Poll: Favorite &#8220;Discoverer&#8221; of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a public holiday here in the US, which means it&#8217;s an Open House day on campus, as Admissions brings in a whole herd of high-schoolers to try to convince them to apply and enroll. This messes up the parking even more than usual, and also requires a bit of extra faculty effort to chat with students and parents, and give lab tours and the like. There&#8217;s no rest for the wicked.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in honor of the holiday that I&#8217;m not getting (Kate has the day off), here&#8217;s a totally non-controversial question to discuss:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Who is your favorite &#8220;discoverer&#8221; of North and South America?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today is Columbus day, officially celebrating the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus, which our grade school teachers told us represented the discovery of America. Of course, the reality is a little more complicated, and lots of other people have been claimed as the real ones who &#8220;discovered&#8221; America over the years. So who is your favorite:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Columbus<\/li>\n<li>Leif Erikson\/ other Vikings<\/li>\n<li>Some Irish monk<\/li>\n<li>Chinese merchant seamen<\/li>\n<li>Prehistoric hunters following mammoth herds over the Bering strait<\/li>\n<li>Space aliens<\/li>\n<li>Some other option that I didn&#8217;t think of<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leave your answer in the comments. For bonus points, offer an argument as to why your choice is the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a public holiday here in the US, which means it&#8217;s an Open House day on campus, as Admissions brings in a whole herd of high-schoolers to try to convince them to apply and enroll. This messes up the parking even more than usual, and also requires a bit of extra faculty effort to chat&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/10\/08\/columbus-day-poll-favorite-dis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Columbus Day Poll: Favorite &#8220;Discoverer&#8221; of America<\/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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}