{"id":2962,"date":"2018-11-08T11:52:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2018-11-08T11:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T16:52:27","slug":"how-not-to-be-ignorant-about-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/how-not-to-be-ignorant-about-the-world","title":{"rendered":"How not to be ignorant about the world&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_9g\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-ad-preview=\"message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>&#8220;The problem (with ignorance of the facts) isn&#8217;t that people don&#8217;t read and listen to the media. The problem is that that the media doesn&#8217;t know (the facts) themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~ Hans Rosling, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250107814\"><em><strong>Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why We&#8217;re Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 854px;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/lang\/en\/hans_and_ola_rosling_how_not_to_be_ignorant_about_the_world\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The problem (with ignorance of the facts) isn&#8217;t that people don&#8217;t read and listen to the media. The problem is that that the media doesn&#8217;t know (the facts) themselves.&#8221; ~ Hans Rosling, author of Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why We&#8217;re Wrong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/how-not-to-be-ignorant-about-the-world\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}