{"id":4769,"date":"2008-11-24T17:24:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/bush-appointees-land-career-jobs-without-technical-backgrounds\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T17:24:16","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T01:24:16","slug":"bush-appointees-land-career-jobs-without-technical-backgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/bush-appointees-land-career-jobs-without-technical-backgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Appointees Land Career Jobs Without Technical Backgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/21\/AR2008112103359.html\">Top Scientist Rails Against Hirings<\/a><br \/>\nBush Appointees Land Career Jobs Without Technical Backgrounds<\/p>\n<p>The president of the nation&#8217;s largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be &#8220;to leave wreckage behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: Top Scientist Rails Against Hirings Bush Appointees Land Career Jobs Without Technical Backgrounds The president of the nation&#8217;s largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2008\/11\/bush-appointees-land-career-jobs-without-technical-backgrounds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}