{"id":2246,"date":"2007-10-22T10:15:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T10:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/10\/i-believe-that-children-are-our-future.html"},"modified":"2007-10-22T10:15:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T10:15:05","slug":"i_believe_that_children_are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/10\/i_believe_that_children_are.html","title":{"rendered":"I believe that children are our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only have time for a quick post, as I&#8217;m about to run off to a meeting &#8211; but I was in a baby gear\/toy store yesterday, and I&#8217;m sorry to report that the children&#8217;s chemistry sets were in the &#8220;Science &amp; Magic&#8221; section.<\/p>\n<p>That pairing really threw me for a loop &#8211; I guess any sufficiently advanced technology really <strong>is<\/strong> indistinguishable from magic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Joshua<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Finkelstein (Senior Editor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/index.html\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only have time for a quick post, as I\u2019m about to run off to a meeting \u2013 but I was in a baby gear\/toy store yesterday, and I\u2019m sorry to report that the children\u2019s chemistry sets were in the \u201cScience &#038; Magic\u201d section.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/10\/i_believe_that_children_are.html#wpn-more-2246\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2007\/10\/i_believe_that_children_are.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}