{"id":50172,"date":"2015-04-26T22:42:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T04:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/26\/eugenics.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:28:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:28:10","slug":"eugenics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/26\/eugenics.html","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Improving the human race sounds like a great idea. In fact, it always has &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Original: <a href=\"http:\/\/smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=3717\">http:\/\/smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=3717<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6142274400772581281\/6142274409689195666'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-BUILlDZ4f1o\/VT2-CE5_JJI\/AAAAAAADNNQ\/hXdgORrVDa4\/1430061365-20150426%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/UUPFmrixbSK'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving the human race sounds like a great idea. In fact, it always has &#8230; (Original: http:\/\/smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=3717) \u00a0 View on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,740,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-race-racism","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1430061365-201504265B15D.pngimgmax=660.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29072,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/race-and-achievement-and-false-similarities.html","url_meta":{"origin":50172,"position":0},"title":"Race and achievement and false similarities","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 5-Aug-12 11:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting look at race and the Olympics -- and how we misconstrue commonality of race. 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