{"id":23210,"date":"2015-01-27T08:09:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=23210"},"modified":"2015-01-27T08:09:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T13:09:44","slug":"everybody-loves-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2015\/01\/27\/everybody-loves-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody Loves STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23211\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro regrets not studying a scientific field.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/01\/1-27-CastroProfile.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23211\" alt=\"Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro regrets not studying a scientific field.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/01\/1-27-CastroProfile-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/01\/1-27-CastroProfile-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/01\/1-27-CastroProfile-620x410.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/01\/1-27-CastroProfile.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Marcelo_montecino \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro regrets not studying a scientific field.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro broke a long silence yesterday, and we couldn&#8217;t resist pointing out this education-related gem.<\/p>\n<p>He mostly touched on the push to open U.S.-Cuba relations.<\/p>\n<p>But in a statement to the University Students Federation, Castro put in a plug for STEM education &#8212; science, technology, engineering and math.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article8212695.html#\/tabPane=tabs-b0710947-1-1\">From the <em>Miami Herald&#8217;s<\/em> story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If he had to do it all over again, he said he would have chosen a scientific field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>STEM is a favorite topic of American politicians who argue <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/07\/21\/gov-scott-rolls-out-plan-to-prepare-workers-for-high-tech-jobs\/\">science fields are a fast track to high-paying jobs and low unemployment<\/a>. Republican Gov. Rick Scott has pushed Florida universities to <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/20\/explaining-florida-gov-scott-war-on-anthropology-why-anthropologists-win\/\">graduate more students with STEM degrees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems STEM is also popular with communist revolutionaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Cuban leader Fidel Castro broke a long silence yesterday, and we couldn&#8217;t resist pointing out this education-related gem. He mostly touched on the push to open U.S.-Cuba relations. But in a statement to the University Students Federation, Castro put in a plug for STEM education &#8212; science, technology, engineering and math. From the Miami [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[981,1027,1082],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23214,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23210\/revisions\/23214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}