{"id":55814,"date":"2014-07-03T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55814"},"modified":"2014-07-03T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:00:51","slug":"why-is-there-this-meme-that-americans-are-ignorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55814","title":{"rendered":"Why Is There A Meme That Americans Are Ignorant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there only news stories about Americans who don&#8217;t know geography or the World Cup or whatever? Americans are no more ignorant a people, on average, when you measure by race, than any other people. Anyway, I don&#8217;t trust these polls and stories as the subjects have no incentives for answering the questions.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/football\/jimmy-kimmel-live-interviews-american-soccer-fans-whose-world-cup-knowledge-is-less-than-impressive\/story-fnkjl6g2-1226976976454\">From Australia<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>BEFORE the World Cup started, we showed you footage of an American prankster, Baha Salamah, testing his compatriots\u2019 knowledge of football.<br \/>\nThe results were not impressive.<br \/>\nSince then, millions of Americans have leapt onto the football bandwagon, inspired by their team\u2019s surprising run to the World Cup\u2019s round of 16. They\u2019ve been paying far more attention to the sport than usual. Surely they\u2019ve learned something in the process?<br \/>\nSadly, no. They haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are there only news stories about Americans who don&#8217;t know geography or the World Cup or whatever? Americans are no more ignorant a people, on average, when you measure by race, than any other people. Anyway, I don&#8217;t trust &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=55814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21791],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55816,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55814\/revisions\/55816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}