{"id":13563,"date":"2016-08-14T07:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=13563"},"modified":"2016-08-14T09:26:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T16:26:24","slug":"ernest-everett-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2016\/08\/ernest-everett-just.html","title":{"rendered":"Ernest Everett Just: Brilliant Mind, Mediocre World"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2016\/08\/nature.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13564\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2016\/08\/nature-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"nature\" width=\"475\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13564\"><\/a><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Everett_Just\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ernest Everett Just<\/a> was born on this day in 1883. Dr Just was a brilliant scientist, who overcame much within a culture that seemed to go out of its way to block his work. As I said, he overcame much, but you want to see how racism hurts us all, you can just imagine what all our lives might have been had he been given the opportunities his brilliance called for. His is a story we should all know. Some gratitude. Some outrage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mgNszyj7R48\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGK84Poeynk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Everett Just was born on this day in 1883. Dr Just was a brilliant scientist, who overcame much within a culture that seemed to go out of its way to block his work. 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