{"id":266,"date":"2006-05-26T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T11:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/26\/kids-these-days\/"},"modified":"2006-05-26T11:48:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T11:48:04","slug":"kids-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/26\/kids-these-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over in the right-hand sidebar, <cite>Seed<\/cite> is pushing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2006\/05\/the_protest_movement.php?utm_source=SB-rightcol&#038;utm_medium=linklist&#038;utm_campaign=internal%2Blinkshare\">short piece on Laurie Pycroft<\/a>, a 16-year-old Briton who founded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-test.org.uk\/\">Pro-Test<\/a>, an organization supporting animal testing. This was all over the UK papers a couple of months ago, and a little Googling turns up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/000792.php\">piece by Pycroft himself<\/a> telling the story of the group&#8217;s origins.<\/p>\n<p>(Note to <cite>Seed<\/cite> overlords: I shouldn&#8217;t need to Google this stuff. Why not put a link to Pycroft&#8217;s web site in the web version of the article?)<\/p>\n<p>I have to say, I&#8217;m terribly disappointed with what this says about the state of modern youth, particularly in Europe. Doesn&#8217;t he know he&#8217;s supposed to be playing video games, drinking beer, and frittering away his afternoons in a cloud of anomie and marijuana smoke?<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over in the right-hand sidebar, Seed is pushing a short piece on Laurie Pycroft, a 16-year-old Briton who founded Pro-Test, an organization supporting animal testing. This was all over the UK papers a couple of months ago, and a little Googling turns up a piece by Pycroft himself telling the story of the group&#8217;s origins.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/26\/kids-these-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kids These Days<\/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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in_the_news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}