{"id":4099,"date":"2012-01-10T12:30:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2012-01-11T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:33:08","slug":"gov-scott-makes-anthropology-joke-in-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/01\/10\/gov-scott-makes-anthropology-joke-in-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Scott Makes Anthropology Joke in Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2206\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"He looks a little stern here, but Gov. Rick Scott made a funny in his State of the State speech Tuesday.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/117052175.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2206\" title=\"U.S. Governors Attend Summit On Jobs At U.S. Chamber Of Commerce\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/117052175-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/117052175-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/117052175-220x160.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2011\/10\/117052175.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Alex Wong \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">He looks a little stern here, but Gov. Rick Scott made a funny in his State of the State speech Tuesday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The one truly funny moment during Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s State of the State speech came when he referenced his much-publicized spat with anthropologists earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>In arguing for the need to better match college graduates with open jobs, <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/20\/explaining-florida-gov-scott-war-on-anthropology-why-anthropologists-win\/\">Scott cited anthropologists<\/a> as a degree Florida probably didn&#8217;t need any more of.<\/p>\n<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s speech Scott had a little fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our efforts on education cannot end here,&#8221; Scott said, according to the prepared version of his speech. &#8220;Florida has a rich cultural history surrounding its colleges and universities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t take my word for it. Ask any anthropologist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Scott paused and then added an improvised line referring to his daughter, Jordan, who <a href=\"http:\/\/htpolitics.com\/2011\/10\/12\/rick-scotts-daughter-has-anthropology-degree\/\">earned an anthropology degree<\/a> and then shifted to business.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My younger daughter is going to shoot me when she reads that part of the speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Rick Scott first attacked anthropology back in October, 2011. Hear what the Governor said about anthropologists <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/20\/explaining-florida-gov-scott-war-on-anthropology-why-anthropologists-win\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0We explain his war on anthropology\u00a0and why anthropologists may win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one truly funny moment during Gov. Rick Scott&#8217;s State of the State speech came when he referenced his much-publicized spat with anthropologists earlier this year. In arguing for the need to better match college graduates with open jobs, Scott cited anthropologists as a degree Florida probably didn&#8217;t need any more of. In Tuesday&#8217;s speech [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[154,1027],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099"}],"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=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}