{"id":160,"date":"2008-12-03T22:06:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T02:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/12\/03\/civics-quiz\/"},"modified":"2008-12-03T22:06:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T02:06:49","slug":"civics-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/2008\/12\/03\/civics-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Civics Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americancivicliteracy.org\/resources\/quiz.aspx\">civics quiz<\/a> on the Internet today. So far this month the average score is 75% but over a longer time it is apparently much lower. Perhaps more people who think they know stuff are self selecting to take it.<\/p>\n<p>I missed one question (out of 33) and am somewhat embarrassed about that. I blame the question in part. \ud83d\ude42 But in all honesty I am somewhat of a history\/politics\/social studies geek. I read a lot about this stuff. So I can see a lot of people missing some of the questions.<\/p>\n<p>For example the main item in the Lincoln\/Douglas debates. But not being able to name the three branches of government? Yeah I don\u2019t get that one.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look and let me know what you think. You don\u2019t have to report your scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting civics quiz on the Internet today. So far this month the average score is 75% but over a longer time it is apparently much lower. Perhaps more people who think they know stuff are self selecting to take it. I missed one question (out of 33) and am somewhat embarrassed about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-links","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/mistert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}